For a year I've been successfully using an internal HP SureStore 24
DDS-3 drive to back up 5 production servers for Dept. of Ag. It's been
totally reliable.

And for about six months I've been using an internal Seagate DAT
9SP40-000 to back up 3 production servers. It's been reliable as well.

mike

On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 17:51, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> My long-suffering DDS-3 drive died today.  As in, when I opened the top to
> see if I could remove an eaten tape, there were mechanism drive gears laying
> about loose inside it.
> 
> I backup 3 Unix and 1 Mac OS X host, for a total of about 60GB.  Speed isn't
> a real issue - the 1.4MB/s of the DAT was fast enough for my needs.
> 
> Reliability is important (which I suppose is a given in this subject).
> Price is pretty important - the wife certainly won't consent to any
> multi-thousand-dollar autoloaders.  I prefer to avoid IDE, and the old drive
> was hanging off an U/W SCSI-3 adapter that's still in perfect shape.
> 
> Any suggestions for a solid drive for a small LAN?  I'm thinking of getting
> an internal DDS-4 (so I can still use my DDS-3 tapes), but I can start over
> with an entirely different format if the advantages are sufficient.
> -- 
> Kirk Strauser
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Michael Martinez
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