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On 09:03:11 AM, Jon Nelson wrote:=20 Because I took it apart last night and broke it accidentally.May it rest in peace. However, I've found on E-Bay an ADR2.60ide. What are they?They are OnStream's second generation drive. Do they use osst as well?No. They do the equivalent of what osst does in firmware, so you can use st=. Are they as reliable as the DI-30's?Probably.
Will they read and write my DI-30 tapes?No:-( That is, the format is incompatible. I believe they will use ADR30tapes - but you'll need to erase them first, you won't be able to read abackup from your DI-30 era. It's either that, or I go DLT, and I've had baaaad experiences with DLT. I don't suppose the Travan TR7 is any good (the Seagate Hornet 40).I don't know what to suggest instead of OnStream, but since they're out ofbusiness, you're likely to have problems getting additional media even forthe ADR2.60.Good luck, Willem Riede.Thread view.
On 09:03:11 AM, Jon Nelson wrote:=20 Because I took it apart last night and broke it accidentally.May it rest in peace. However, I've found on E-Bay an ADR2.60ide. What are they?They are OnStream's second generation drive. Do they use osst as well?No.
They do the equivalent of what osst does in firmware, so you can use st=. Are they as reliable as the DI-30's?Probably. Will they read and write my DI-30 tapes?No:-( That is, the format is incompatible. I believe they will use ADR30tapes - but you'll need to erase them first, you won't be able to read abackup from your DI-30 era. It's either that, or I go DLT, and I've had baaaad experiences with DLT.
I don't suppose the Travan TR7 is any good (the Seagate Hornet 40).I don't know what to suggest instead of OnStream, but since they're out ofbusiness, you're likely to have problems getting additional media even forthe ADR2.60.Good luck, Willem Riede.
Quote:Originally posted by MostlyHarmless:NOOOOOO!!!!!! Don't do it!At work we fitted maybe 2 dozen Onstream drives - either DI30 or DI30-Fast.
4 months later not one works.The problems so far:- Drivers stop working for no reason (mainly a problem on NT4.- Tape jams, which makes the little rubber drive wheel melt- Tape heats up, melts and then won't come out of the drive- The electronics fsk up, killing the IDE controller on the board- They don't work on ServerWorx chipsets (IDE version only)- The warranty replacement drives usually are broken on receipt.Travan is a shitload better. DAT is by far and away the best backup solution under テつ」1000. Quote:Originally posted by PowerJoe:I've always wandered - what's the point of tape backup? For the price of tape drive + 7 tapes (for weekly rotation), you can get 7 Firewire/USB2 drives of higher capacity, higher performance, and non-sequential access.-PJRight.this IS true, and you CAN get away with using hard drives to backup data. However, hard drives are NOT a backup solution. Anyone who has any corporate experience with backup solutions would (well.should - View image here: -) agree with me on this one.
Home users, and non-critical data can have no problems with that. But when it comes to a correct back up solution, you need media that is designed with intent to be removable and stored.Yes I know there are removable hard drive trays, and you can detatch firewire boxes and take them somewhere, but they weren't designed to this as a back up solution.
Even networking across to another computer is not as good as removable media. The same thing goes for RAID. That is a fault tolerant solution, not a 'backup' solution.CDR/CDRW are acceptable, because they can be removed and stored, and it was designed as such.DVDRs are approaching tape capacity, but are still not as good as using a tape.Tape backup systems are king (or queen - View image here: -) of backup. They are rugged, durable, hold lots of data, and the proven technology had been around for decades. You invest in these if you consider your data valuable enough to warrant them.It's all a matter of price versus value.
How much is your data worth to you? You consider that, then you buy a 'backup' system. If it mean very little, and only used out of convinence (system craps out, can rebuild quickly), then go with firewire external hard drives. If it's a little more valuable, but you can't justify a corporate level system, CDR/CDRW/DVDR is probably a good choice. If you going to be hosed if you lost your data, bite the bullet and get a good tape system. It may seem extravagent, but when the shite hits the fan, and you go back to recover your stuff, then you'll know why the price is worth it.BTW, I'm using a firewire 'backup' solution, eventually when I get the dough together, I'll follow my own advice - View image here: -.My $0.02.mhacテつウ.
A SCSI adapter is, what, $25 for an used UW adapter? If you're corporate and have to buy something, you can buy a non-bootable adapter for a similarly low price.That makes things like the DLT and DDS tape drives pretty simple. I'm a fan of both, although DLT really makes you feel like you've got a nice heavy duty solution and the tapes feel a bit more reassuring.They're still a bit costly, but definitely superior to Travan - and Travan will make up the cost in the cost of tapes if you use a corporate style tape retirement scheme. If you don't, it might not.Z.
Don't forget eBay!If you're careful and persistant, you can find some tremendous deals there! I bought an open-box (but NEW) Quantum DLT1 internal 68-pin LVD SCSI tape drive (40GB uncompressed, 80GB compressed) for less than $250 from DealTree.com via eBay.It's a TREMENDOUSLY nice tape drive; its very fast and so far 100% reliable (and I've used it a fair bit). EBay also has some great deals on tapes, but I only buy new (unopened and.sealed.) DLT tapes (these can still be had for good prices). The most I've ever spent for a new DLTtape IV cartridge is about $40.
Most of the ones (again, all new, unopened, and still sealed) I have I bought for $15 to $30 each. Travan does not suck. It is better than nothing. It just expensive in terms of $/byte if you are doing regular rotated backups.
The drive is cheap but the media is expensive.I myself like dat. They are moderately priced, comparable in volume to travan and about the same speed. Dds/dat drives do come with ide interfaces.If I were buying today and did not have an existing installed base of dds/dat, I would almost certainly go ait. $610 for a ide interface 35 gig native drive with 4 MB/s native xfer rate (90 gig, 10 MB/s compressed) is pretty durned good.
Compare that to $666 for a dds4 drive 20 gig native, 2.4 MB/s native xfer rate) and ait looks pretty good. The downside is the media is $63 per cart compared to $18 per cart for dds4. All prices complements ofI can not in all honesty recommend DLT or Exabyte for new installations. They are just not competitive. A comparable dlt drive (40 gig native) is twice the price and half the speed of ait and media costs the same.While I said Travan does not suck, I will say that onstream sucks.
Travan is better than onstream, and no backup may even be better than onstream. At least that way you are not fooling yourself into believeing you have a backup.
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