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October 2001, Week 4

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Re: Tape hardware?
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"Steve Dirickson (Volt)" <[log in to unmask]>
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Steve Dirickson (Volt)
Date:
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 19:52:39 -0700
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> We just bought a DLT7000 about 3400$ US, not the latest 
> technology but it cut our backup time in half(from the 
> hicompression DDS3) and no longer required 2 tapes.  The 
> vendor threw in the 200$ adapter card.  The other surprise 
> cost was buying 22 DLT tapes was 2800$.  Two cleaning tapes 
> at 45$ each.

FWIW, $6290 will buy not-quite-5 181GB drives, or 15 73GB drives. No
cleaning required.

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