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- From: koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
- Subject: Re: Floptical, Tape, Syquest, WORM, comments needed.
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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:40:51 GMT
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- > drive internally if possible. The Syquest is my first choice because of
- > its speed and storage (20ms at 44M or 88M - correct me if I'm wrong).
-
- > A tape drive is also an alternative. It is slower than the rest, but I guess
- > it has more space for the buck. Is there a program that will allow me to
-
- I eventually ended up with both a syquest (for data storage) and a tape
- (for backup and data storage). Perhaps counterintuively, if I had to choose
- one or the other I'd pick the tape over the Syquest. (The ideal solution is
- obviously both).
-
- The Syquest 44 Mb is about as fast as a slow hard disk - roughly 600 Kb/sec.
- The 88 Mb Syquest is supposedly almost twice as fast, altough I've never
- seen one personally. Some tape drives are almost as fast as the
- slower syquest, but are not random access devices like a disk drive is.
-
- The Syquest is nice for extra HD space, especially if you have 2 or more
- carts for it, but there is the question of how you back them up. Unless
- you have 2 Syquest drives, you can't easily back up one syquest cart onto
- another. Backup up your HD with a tape drive is so vastly easier than
- using floppies that you'll wonder how you got along without one for so long.
- Also, you can easily use the tape for off-line storage - I use tar and
- BTN-tape to store large amounts of data off-line, and I can get it back
- within 10 to 30 seconds depending on how much stuff there is. A cheap
- tape drive and the Syquest should be approximately in the same price range.
- Dunno how much a floptical is - with those you get a cheaper price/Mb than
- with Syquest, but much slower speeds. The tape will be the cheapest price
- per Mb of any of the solutions but at the expense of random access.
-
- There is no best solution - it just depends on how you prioritize speed,
- storage capacity, price for the drive, and price/Mb for media.
-
- - steve
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