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    RDX Tape drives

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by puddy, Jul 22, 2011.

  1. puddy

    puddy Newbie

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    Does anybody us the RDX tape backup drives?

    I found you can buy the rdx drive from ebuyer.co.uk £102 and buy a 320GB tape for £60 off amazon.co.uk

    The kits cost inc tape 320gb cost over £220 and even more if it got HP on it so it’s cheaper to buy it as separate parts now.

    I have about 36gb on my dell xps 17 hard drive and it can do a full backup in 8 minutes and a bare metal restore in 9 minutes. No need to load windows

    Unlike Iomega rev drives the RDX does not need a driver so it will work with any operating system plus a 320GB tape is without compression.

    RDX tape now make a 2TB tape so if you have more stuff on your hard drive buy a bigger tape.

    I use active@disk software with my RDX drive

    The tape drive has no tape inside anymore it’s all electronic now

    Mine was a Tandberg badged but they have diffent badges like Freecom Imation & HP but are all the same but HP cost twice as much

    Puddy
     
    puddy, Jul 22, 2011
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  2. atbnet

    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    Is there any reason why an external hard drive wouldn't be a better choice? You can get a larger amount of storage for less price.
     
    atbnet, Jul 22, 2011
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  3. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    Yeah, I considered tape drives for long term storage briefly a couple years ago. But since then, the rate of my data growth has remained constant or decreased while hard drive prices have dropped exponentially... there really isn't a contest anymore.
     
    Commander Wolf, Jul 22, 2011
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  4. ray4jc

    ray4jc Notebook Evangelist

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    I did a quick google search of this just now, it seems like the RDX drives I've found are just 2.5" hard drives in a proprietary case that look like tapes.

    Just curious and interested to know what are the benefits of this versus say an external esata drive?
     
    ray4jc, Jul 22, 2011
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