How to connect an Exabyte VXA-2 PacketLoader 1x10 1U Tape Autoloader

Firewire is easier to connect than SCSI, yes.

Repent34-

Firewire is easier. I do not know if it is faster than SCSI though. Of course FW800 should be faster than the FW400 flavour in that format.

Luck-

-DaddyPaycheck

One downside to the FireWire model is that the VXA3 drive upgrade won't be available for about another year (whereas it's already available for the SCSI model). The upgrade is under $1000, easy to install, uses the same media, and doubles your capacity (serious no-brainer). But, you need the SCSI card on your Xserve to use it.

MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi

For the past two years now we have used the Exabyte 1U-10 slot VX Packetloader (Firewire) version with our XServe installations and have been very pleased with it's performance. I would highly recommend this drive and you should be able to buy it with Retrospect bundled. It is a solid backup solution. The price has also dropped substantially (at least here in the UK, it has) which has made it more affordable for Xserve users looking for an automatic backup solution.

Paul

PowerBook G4 17" Mac OS X (10.4.7)

I have been using the Exabyte VXA-2 for about 2 years as well and have had it hooked up to both my xServes(one is a G4 and the other G5) via firewire. I have been really happy with it as a back up solution. I have backed up directly to tape with it and was happy with the speed and I am not staging everyone to an xServe RAID and then backing that up to tape and the speed has been just as good.

Dan