DAT and 8mm: practical experiences
Clauss Strauch
cbs at cs.cmu.edu
Mon Jun 17 12:47:33 AEST 1991
I've seen the hype and some of the technical data comparing 8mm to
4mm tape drives, but would like to hear people's practical experiences with
the two media. Specifically:
-- Experiences with reliablity, both for the drives and
the media (how well do the tapes hold up to repeated
use/abuse?).
-- The 90m (2 GB w/o compression) DAT drives are available,
but are the drives and media as reliable as the lower-
capacity ones? It seems like just a short while ago
the 90m tapes were bleeding edge.
-- Anything else that gets left out of the advertising
blurbs and technical specifications, but might cause a
sysadmin to prefer one technology over the other.
-- Clauss Strauch
Engineering Design Research Center
Carnegie Mellon University
cbs at edrc.cmu.edu
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