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hehe... tapes are ghetto. Tongue Reminds me of my dad's C-64, and this little accessory thing you attached on a regular tape recorder to make it work as a tape drive. I'm sure things are different now. I may go for setting up a hotswapping system with a couple of cheap 20GB drives.

Tape drives are very mainstream in corporate networks. I work for a multi-billion dollar corporation that implements DLTs and SDLTs with every server. They recently (about a year ago) implemented huge tape silos with robotic arms (the arm is about 7 feet tall). On the ends of the robotic arms are cameras so you can see the action inside the silo. The arms move so fast, it looks like the v-hold is messed up on the monitors. Anyway, I acquired an older Compaq DLT 15/30 that was being retired and I currently use it at home. It works great and is very fast for backing up my data. You might search for "DLT" on Ebay and see what's out there. They are SCSI, so you will need a good SCSI controller...


Here's the drive I own:



I have around a dozen tapes, and I just rotate them daily...

Sean

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SeanP: Aug 21, 2002, 8:26 AM

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