10 Jul
2001
10 Jul
'01
5:55 p.m.
I once had one of the Maynard devices you mention. It
worked VERY reliably,
even under Win95 with Seagate Backup Executive. Unfortunately, it
is limited in
capacity to 5GB per 112 meter tape with software compression. The
drive is very
slow with software compression, however, as the overhead drops the rate down
below the streaming rate of common inexpensive SCSI adapters.
When I got it, it's capacity of 2.5gig uncompressed was still
a pretty substantial drive, especially compared to the Colorado 120's
and 250's that were popular at the time. Not to mention that most
people were still trying to break the IDE 540meg barrier. The other
reason I bought it was because it was cheap surplus and I decided to
take a chance on being able to get it fixed. I did toy with the idea
of using it under Win95/98 for a bit but decided that since the OS
had to be reinstalled to do a restore anyway that it wasn't worth the
hassle.
Jeff
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