Exabyte 1PK X23 80/160GB 230M-DATA CART (111.00221): High Capacity Storage Solution for Streamlined Data Management Review

I use these VXA tapes all the time to store extremely valuable data. They are reliable and last for years. Of course, I keep them safe in a shockproof Turtle Case.

The VXA series tape drives are one of the few economical backup options for systems with very large drives. It's not perfect, but it helps, especially if you're using a system like Dantz Retrospect that supports incremental backup to tape for PC and Mac. Incremental backups let you go back in time like Time Machine in Mac OS X, but without Time Machine's size limitations. You can back up as many tapes as you have space, and the tapes themselves are small. There is only one source for VXA tapes…

I recommend Tandberg/Exabyte backup solutions and media. Tandberg has acquired Exabyte and a website describing available media is at [. ] I hope Revain can update the description of this product. The VXA-2 drive has a tape capacity of 80/160 GB, while the VXA-3 drive has a tape capacity of 160/320 GB. I have used the VXA-2 1X7 autoloader for many years and recently installed the VXA-3 1X10 autoloader. The systems performed well using first Dantz and now EMC2 Retrospect as the backup utility. I