I finished reading some articles about how CDR's are not forever. And couple of tech that I've talked to told me that the safest way to back up is still TAPE.
At work I do back-up on these 20normal/40compressed Gb tapes. I started looking for these drives, but Dell told me that I can only buy it in the machine. Does anyone have any idea where can I buy it and what would be the price.
It is becomes kinda ergent for me, cause I'll be rebuilding my computer and I want to buy siutable case for it. (last time I did it and I didn't have enought space for extra harddrive and zip drive.) I don't want to make same mistake twice.

Also what is the most economical power block outthere for the case. I've seen one for 300W, but it was only display and 4 weeks for ordering one.


Thanks for the input.

Paul

 

I would use the second safest backup. Another HDD.

if you must use a tape: http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...uctCode=101417

 

I used to use one at the last office job I had and ran it every day at the end of work. They are a lot more efficient than a CD-R or DVD-R but finding the drives and setting them up can be a bit of a hassle.

I would look at www.newegg.com or check on Frys website maybe, you may also be able to find them on www.pricewatch.com as well.

 

I've been using the SCSI NS20 version of what DakarM posted for about 2+ yrs on my server at work. Worked pretty good...

 

here, seagate split off their entire tape division and called it certance:

http://www.certance.com

I'm actually having some trouble with my tape drive right now (excessive soft write errors), but if you clean your drive on the intervals specified by the manufacturer, you'll be fine.

I'm paying the price for not cleaning once a week, since I used the tape about 35-40hrs a week :doh:

DakarM, do u work for seagate/certance?

 

nope but when I worked at adaptec, seagate was probably the tape maker that we got the least calls from. That is a good thing

Sony was probably the one we got the most calls from (terrible QA). I personally took a dozen calls on their external models where the signal cable was disconnected

 

:werd:

Due to my improper maintenance, I'm paying the price Just realized that it was actually upwards of 50hrs of use per week...

 

DAT tapes... u can get DDS4's for like $9 each...20/40GB.

 

Dell will only sell you the internal drives. They're called DLT tape drives, and there are several manufacturers out there which will sell you the external version. However, you'll need a SCSI card in your PC, since that's the only way these drives are made.

You can also get DLT drives in 40/80 versions (40 GB uncompressed, 80 GB compressed).

You'll need software to run your backups too. Veritas, CA and others make software that will talk to these drives.

 

nothing is forever

easiest is another hdd imo