[rescue] Exabyte 8500S - oui ou non?

Wed Nov 12 11:09:35 CST 2003

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:22:40AM -0500, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> Well, I'm currently using a DDS-2 drive for backups, and it's both small
> _and_ slow.  The DDs-2's 2 GB capacity is a pain I'm attempting to alleviate
> with the 5 GB 8500S.  Slow is OK; I run a backup script in the middle of the
> night.  The DDS-2 takes about an hour per GB.  If the 8500S is about the
> same, I'll be OK.

No question that an 8500S should be a lot better than a DDS-2.

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