[plug] Seagate Travan drives, possibly Seagates worst product?

[Kevin Shackleton]

The DDS2 and DDS3 drives are DAT-type drives - helical scan, cost about
$1500.

Travan/QIC drives are much more roughly made and cost about $300.

Pay peanuts, get monkeys I guess.

K.

navarre at plug.linux.org.au wrote:
> 
> The Seagate and other brands of tape drives called DDS[1-3] (one through
> three ) QIC and the others all fall into this class of defective unit.