Hi Dwayne:

DATMAN sounds like a good tool. I was about ready to stick to hard drives
after the most recent post, but your confidence in tape has me putting off
the decision.

It seems like this one is a 50/50 split. Some of those that replied have
been rather passionate in favor of one method or the other.

I have had little success with optical drives, CDRW, etc. which made this
the first option for me to eliminate, especially since I know of one PCB
design house that tried doing CD/RW backups - and had disaster after disater
with it.
Is the consensus on this just as negative as my feelings?

Chris


> Tape is cost effective and reliable.  The best bang for the
> buck right now
> seems to be DDS-2 tape - my cost is less than $10.00 Canadian
> per tape in
> small quantities.  All my tape drives have hardware compression - that
> DDS-2 tape holds about 6.4 gigs of typical user data.
>
> While the tape itself has been reliable to date, the tape
> drives have been
> less so.  I just had another HP DDS-2 drive fail - it will
> cost a hundred
> dollars to get it back in working condition.

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