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by vf2002

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hi. i hope to purchase a tape drive on ebay soon but any help here will help me to know if i'll be doing the right thing so i'd appreciate your thoughtful assistance please.
i don't really know anything about tape drives and the software that comes with them and need some help in finding out which one is the best.
i went on ebay and found 3 of them that sound ok but i need to know more before i bid on them. 2 of them r colorado t1000 and 350 and the other is iomega tape 250. which one is the better and what software or tape disks(or whatever they're called) should i get for them. thank you for any help.

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by thechas

Without looking these drives up, my memory says that all 3 are older technology drives with (now) hard to find tapes.

If you plan to go with tape, you want a current model tape drive with 4GB or more data capacity on a tape. Anything less, is simply wasting money.

Go with HP, Seagate, or Teac DAT style tape drives.

If you have a small data set to backup, CD-R is going to be a faster and more stable media to use then the old QIC series data tapes.

For small data sets, when you factor in media costs, CD just makes a lot more sense than small capacity tape drives.

Chas

by thechas

Had to verify that my memory was correct.

Here is a link to HP's media guide for Travan and QIC tape drives.

http://tinyurl.com/aeii

The drives you listed are ALL old obsolete drives. I would avoid them!!

In fact, IOmega no longer offers ANY tape drives, or blank tapes.

As to the memory question.
The first line details specifics of the memory.
The second is more generic.

Before upgrading memory, you need to know the specifics of the target PC.
Type of memory needed: SDRAM, DDR, RDRAM
Maximum and per slot capacity:
Speed: PC 66, PC100, PC133, PC2100

I would caution AGAINST buying RAM on e-bay unless you know for CERTAIN that the RAM being offered will function in your motherboard.
If your motherboard uses SDRAM DIMM memory, there can be a number of incompatibilities with newer RAM technology, and capacity.

Also, your version of Windows can be an issue. Windows 95, 98, and Me have a 'bug' in the core code that can cause all kinds of problems if you install more than 511MB of RAM.

Chas

by vf2002

ALSO CAN ANYONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT IS THE DIFFRENCE, IF THERE IS ANY, BETWEEN

"256 MB RAM PC133 SDRAM COMPUTER MEMORY"

and

"256 MB MEGS OF RAM COMPUTER PC MEMORY UPGRADE"? thank you.

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