Tape Drives????

[GBS]

Hi
I need to replace my tape drive at work. I currently have a Travan NS4 drive which can backup 8GB (compressed); this has been OK for 3 years but now we need to increase capacity to 20GB or more.
Sadly I cant just buy a 40GB Travan tape and pop it into the drive as they are not compatible - which seems a bit useless to me!!! So I would like to avoid Imation products if possible (designed obsolescence )

Any advice appreciated.

[itbroker]

Take a look at Lacie. I have a product by myself.

http://www.lacie.com/uk/

Very good quality, cool design e cheap price !

[seb21__]

I have really no experience with things like these. But would be a Hard drive not better?

[rich912]

I know nothing about tape drives either, but I understand that REV drives have better speed and storage capacity. This just happened to arrive in my e-mail this morning. It seems expensive to me, but there again I have no idea of the cost of a tape drive.

[seb21__]

Data Transfer Rate60 MBps (external) / 25.4 MBps (internal)

LOL, that must be a tip error.

[kee-lo_]

GBS

ebuyer has a huge selection of tape drives, and they're not overly expensive.

www.ebuyer.com

[GBS]

Thanks Fellas
You have certainly given me something to think about. It looks like a removable harddrive might be the way to go...

[VAIOFAN]

Tape drive, can any one tell me about it. havent heard about that? am i missing alot about it?

lol thanks

[kee-lo_]

Paul

In the old days - people used to backup their valuable data on a tape drive.

This would do it sequentially, so if someone needed a record from lets say 12 November 2003, they had to wind the tape to the right place.

The good thing about them was restoring the data was easy, unless you need one or multiple pieces of data.

Hard disks are now more prefered because they can be read randomly, something tape cannot do.

[VAIOFAN]

thanks Kee- lo

thats very intresting! but no way i would have one of thows lol.


again thanks


Paul