For Free: VXA-1 Packet Tape Drive
I have an Exabyte VXA-1 tape drive which I want to give away for free. It takes 33GB tapes and they are very very reliable. You could shove the tapes into a freezer or dump them into boiling coffee and you would still be able to retreive the information from them. The version of the tape drive I have is external and connects using Firewire. The price of this tape drive brand new is $1,099.
I am giving the drive away for free because I am having problems with it. I don’t know if its a software problem or hardware problem. I passed it to TivoGuy and he was able to get it working but when I tried using it on my Mac it would sometimes backup the data and sometimes it would give me an error. It could be from the backup tapes, it could be a software problem or it could be a hardware problem. I am not sure and I don’t care. If you want the tape drive just leave a comment below. You will get it without any tapes and without the firewire cable. If more then one person wants the drive then I will give it to the geekiest one.
For more info on the drive click [Here]
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17 Comments, add your own...
1. mocman | August 2nd, 2006 at 12:28 pm
Hmm… an unreliable backup device ….hmmm thanks … personally i prefer dvd-rw’s and dvd-r’s ..unfortunately my current stack goes almost 400 dvd-r’s high …. sigh… need more space
2. hola | August 2nd, 2006 at 12:28 pm
1st post i win. although i don’t want it mark. person under me gets it.
3. hola | August 2nd, 2006 at 12:29 pm
oh shit i lost :(
4. TwaiF | August 2nd, 2006 at 12:30 pm
i want i want
5. Mark | August 2nd, 2006 at 12:35 pm
mocman exabyte actually make extremely reliable highend backup devices. i am telling u mine could be just a software problem. whoever takes it will have to see what the problem could be. might work perfectly fine under windows.
6. siddharth | August 2nd, 2006 at 12:44 pm
photographer tired of unreliable dvd’s for long term archiving is willing to explore tape drive option :)
i want.
7. KtheKuwaiti | August 2nd, 2006 at 1:08 pm
Count me in…
8. princess | August 2nd, 2006 at 1:14 pm
I dont want it, but I’ve got an idea. Write down all the names that want it and do a raffle at next Monday’s meeting! That way, the night ends with a little give-away! :) You could give away a free muffin or brownie while you’re at it… then giving away stuff could be a traditional thing when the meetings take place…
9. Cajetan Barretto | August 2nd, 2006 at 1:23 pm
oh goody, i love raffles. Put my name for this bad boy. I am sure I can get it working.
10. djevolution212 | August 2nd, 2006 at 1:51 pm
I want it, since I’ve never tried out tape drives out before. Arn’t they supposed to be pretty slow because sequential data access?
11. Fonzy | August 2nd, 2006 at 2:33 pm
interested:) i was supposed to take ur bazooka back in beirut too but that never happened, i had gotten one by the time u wanted to get rid of it. So i will make it up to you by taking this instead:P
12. Mark | August 2nd, 2006 at 2:34 pm
fuck totally forgot about that. its probably still at the guys store lol
13. Mo Hat | August 2nd, 2006 at 5:20 pm
i want the drive you know im really geeky :D
i’ve never had a tape drive and this could be my only chance to ever own one, and i do have firewire ports which are just waiting to be used
14. iCon | August 2nd, 2006 at 9:21 pm
E=MC^2,
IP address of 248am= 66.199.240.42,
248am WebServer Config: Apache/1.3.34 Unix Gentoo PHP/4.4.0-pl1-gentoo mod_ssl/2.8.25 OpenSSL/0.9.7e mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a
SEE I M A GEEK & A FAN of 248AM
SO…CAN I ???
15. Mark | August 3rd, 2006 at 9:24 am
KtheKuwaiti gets the drive since he works in IT
16. silas asiedu | August 3rd, 2006 at 10:09 pm
i will like to do business with u
17. Moey | August 4th, 2006 at 3:18 am
K won’t mind giving it to me :P I’m old fashion I like tapes hahaha
enjoy K (i saw nibaq in jordan :P )
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