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From: sar@datcon.UUCP (Simon A Reap)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: large capacity tape drives
Summary: MegaTape 500
Message-ID: <38@datcon.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 89 17:46:50 GMT
References: <18215@adm.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: sar@datcon.co.uk (Simon A Reap)
Organization: Data Connection Limited, Enfield, Middlesex, UK
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In article <18215@adm.BRL.MIL> mmorse@note.nsf.gov (Michael Morse) writes:
| Does anyone have any experience with large capacity tape drives?
| .....  Any other comments on backing up disks over Ethernet?

We've been using MegaTape Corp's MegaTape 500 tape drive for a couple
of years now with great success on our Pyramid 9820.  It's a 500
Mbyte-per-cartridge (MDC500 cartridges), cassette tape drive, with the
cassettes costing about 150 dollars each, and being between 1 and 2 VHS
video cartridges in size.  It has a standard, daisy-chainable Pertec
I/F.  They also do a 750 Mbyte version.  We've no experience of
trans-Ethernet backups, since we the Pyramid is the only *real* machine
we have on the Ethernet - I don't count the PCs :-)

I don't work.  For Pyramid or MegaTape - I'm just satisfied.  As a user.
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