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- From: lee@dlpco.dlpco.COM (Lee Penn )
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- Subject: WANTED: Stories about SCSI Tape Backups und
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- Date: 3 Jan 93 15:06:56 GMT
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- >Earned a few bucks and am looking to get a SCSI tape for my
- >SCO Xenix (2.3.2) system. I'm looking in the 250MEG range.
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- >Anyone got any war stories??
- >--
- >Its most likely a | E-MAIL: jp@michigan.com CAT-TALK IS BACK as a FREE
- >forgery, so save your | SYSTEM!! 313-882-2209 300-14400 V.32/V.32BIS/TurboPEP
- >flames for someone | Anon-UUCP: System: tygra, Login: nuucp, no pw
- >who cares :-> | Get file "/cat/pub/filelist" for a list of files.
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- We use and sell Sankyo. We used to use Archive/Maynard drives
- and starting having problems getting the drives serviced. Sankyo
- has been very reliable and service has not been an issue.
-
- Regarding service however, we are finding a number of 3rd party
- service organizations who are in the business of refurbishing
- drives.
-
- War stories: Compaq WANGTEK SCSI drive which would not read SCO
- installation tapes. Had major problems with this and no help
- from either Compaq or Wangtek. Would not even admit the problem
- existed.
-
- WANG DAT drive which caused system panics and data which could not
- be verified with CTAR's bit level verify. At this point, we are
- avoiding DAT as a result of this experience. I really think this
- is a DAT drive driver issue, but unless a device is supported
- really well in software, we tend to avoid it.
-
- Tape backup is just too critical an issue for us to ignore. ALL
- of the major disastors which we have been envolved with center
- around faulty tape drives which appeared to backup but could not
- restore, or errored out and the customer just did not do backups,
- etc. We have a fortune 500 customer lose 8 years of customer
- data as a result of the staff not doing backups properly.
-
- FYI: QIC drives are expensive, but not as bad as DAT drives.
-
- Sankyo 150/250 drive $750 retail
-
- Sankyo 350/525 drive $972
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- Sankyo 1 Gig $1,265
-
- Media is another expense:
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- 3mdc6150 $30 each
-
- 3mdc6250 41
-
- 3mdc6350 39
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- 3mdc6525 45
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- 3mdc1gig 50
-
- We feel you need at least five cartridges, thus you can see that
- the cost of those is not insignificant.
-
- Happy shopping.
-
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- Lee Penn, DLP Technologies, Inc. Voice: 513 232-7791
- SCO Advanced Product Center FAX: (513) 232-7801
- 7444 Jager Ct.
- Cincinnati, OH 45230-4344 email: lee@dlpco.COM
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