ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown) (05/31/88)
After idly looking at ads for tape backup units for a while, I am now
definitely going to buy one (having just suffered a disk crash--luckily,
I had a completely current monthly backup....).
So, any recommendations for tape backups meeting the following specs?
. half-height internal
. 40M - 60M (more than 42M is actually superfluous)
. must do file-by-file full/incremental backup/restore
. if it runs off floppy controller, must allow two floppies on
standard AT WD hard/floppy controller
. cost < $450
Speed is not really important. Even if it takes 40 minutes to backup 20
megs, I'll still save about 39.8 minutes (since I won't have to sit and
do the floppy shuffle).
Looking at _Computer_Shopper_ ads, I find six contenders:
Irwin 40 meg (though I've heard a lot of negative comments)
Colorado Memory Systems 44 meg
Archive 40 meg
Mountain 40 meg
Alloy 40 meg
Everex 40 meg cassette
Anybody have comments on these (or other cheap) systems? Send mail, I'll
summarize to the net.
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