Experiences with Seagate Hornet 20GB SCSI

[cranberry]

Hi,

I'm soon going to be in the market for a tape drive for my PC, I've been looking at Onstream drives, but seems my backup software doesn't support them. So now I'm looking for a 20Gb Travan tape drive.

On spec/price the Seagate 20GB SCSI Hornet seems good. 120 MByte/min throughput, and only £200 sterling compared with £300 for a similar HP drive. I know that cost of the media will be high though £30 per tape.

Does anyone have any experience of using the Hornet tape drives, and in particular the SCSI model? Is the estimate of throughput true (will be used on a PII 450 with 2 9Gb SCSI LVD drives), and how reliable are the drives?

I plan to use the drive on a machine with Win98, Win 2K, OS/2, and possibly some version of Linux (Mandrake?) in the near future.

thanks,

Cranberry

[Entragian ][]

I would go with the seagate drive. Reliable and well built.
I'm not saying this just because I work for them, but because I have never had problems with their/our products. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Entragian ][

[oksenior]

hello

I have an eight gig Seagate hornet travain scsi tape drive. It has been the best of several I've owned over the years. 3.5gig or backed up and verified within 2 1/2 hours and I'm being conservative in my remembrance to the high side.

Great drive and I would think a 20 gig would be just as good or better.

ps.
I'm still using the v 2.0i OEM software and see no need to change since it is flexible enough for my needs though it will not permit me to back up to a harddrive.The software bundle should also be of consideration

[This message has been edited by oksenior (edited 08-03-2000).]