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I just retired an old server at work which had a tape drive. It is a seagate STD224000N which is SCSI-2. The tapes can store up to 24gb of data. Seems like a nice drive and I have lots of tapes but not sure how I would go about using this with my mac. Do they make firewire/usb cases with scsi interfaces on the inside?
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They do, but they're going to be almost $100. For that price, you can easily get a HD with 300 GB of space...
(you might need the power supply for another $29)
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Looks like I have a boat anchor.
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I did get a 250gb western digital sata drive out of it though. I suppose the belkin f5u198 controller is no good in macs...
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Make a robot or automated cat feeder from the motor.
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You HAVE transferred all the DAT data to another medium, right?
I still have a SCSI DAT drive hooked up to an old OS9 9600, in case I need to unarchive al old job. I got most of the data off the tapes through the years, but I know as soon as I pitch it i'll get that call from a long lost client......
BTW, the DAT data has never failed me, its remarkably stable & reliable. Some over 13 years old.
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I had a tape drive up until a couple of years ago--a very nice SCSI VXA Ecrix
drive which used 33 GB tapes. Used it for a few years until I realized that
I could back up/archive cheaper & faster and without SCSI to firewire drives.
Dropped the damn thing off at an electronics recycling center last year along
with a bunch of tapes (carefully and securely erased) and said bye bye.