I've routinely gotten good 8200's for <$50 by searching DejaNews for them.
I've happily paid $100 when I needed an 8500, more if it's an 8500C
(hardware compression) and if I thought I needed another 8505XL, I'd happily
pay $250 for one. The first of these drives I got was from an Exabyte
employee who built them from the scrap box. I started using it in '91 and
it still backs up about 10 GB every day. It's been quite solid when I've
attempted to restore to a replacement drive, and, aside from software
quirks, works as well as I need.
I have spent MANY hours and days exercising, testing, and verifying with
these drives and find them refreshingly reliable. I've never had a backup
turn out to be unusable, nor have I lost any files due to media flaws or the
drive's inability to recover the data.
With the exception of the 8200, all the 8xxx series from Exabyte are
SCSI-II, which means there's software to support them. On a separate SCSI
channel from the main array, server backup under NT or Netware works VERY
well with them.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Pechter <pechter_at_pechter.dyndns.org>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2000 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: exabyte tape unit
> > Hello guys and gals,
> >
> > I have a quick question: I just procured an exabyte EXB8505ST and was
> > wondering if any of you knew what tape it uses and what the capacity is
in
> > MB. Got this at a swap meet for the case, but if the drive is useable,
I'll
> > keep it together. Respond off-list to keep the clutter down.
> >
> > Kind regards
> > --
> > Gary Hildebrand
> >
> > ghldbrd_at_ccp.com
>
>
> I believe it's 5-8gb...
>
> I've only got the 8200's and the 8505's a find.
> I'd love to find a cheap one.
>
> Just spent 500 to get one swapped out at work.
>
>
> Bill
>
>
> --
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Received on Mon May 22 2000 - 00:35:35 BST