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From: p3ay@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: WangDAT drive from APS??
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.122732.1619@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 90 16:27:32 GMT
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In article <734@nih-csl.nih.gov>,
wayne@helix.nih.gov (Wayne Rasband) writes:
> I would like to buy a DAT drive to backup a 345MB AppleShare server and to
> backup user disks over our Ethernet. The best deal I have seen is the
> WangDAT drive with  Retrospect  from Alliance Peripheral Systems(APS) for
> $1749. I have two questions. Is the WangDAT a good(reliable) drive and is
> APS' support and service as good as they claim it to be in their MacWeek ads?
>
> --wayne

We just got one a couple of weeks ago.  Seems to work great!  Very fast and
quiet.  Backup speed (w/ Retrospect) was about 7-9 Megs/min.  Retrospect looks
pretty good but isn't as flexable as I had hoped.  I am still waiting for
the Remote 10-packs to show up so I can try incremental backups over appletalk.
As it now stands, great product.

-Bill
p3ay@vax5.cit.cornell.edu