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From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: looking for large-capacity tape recommendations, discommendations, comments
To: john@starfire.mn.org
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 19:08:01 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199604011618.KAA27598@starfire.mn.org> from "john@starfire.mn.org" at Apr 1, 96 10:18:29 am
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> 
> Please reply directly, as I do not subscribe to this list.
> 
> I am looking for recommendations and user experience with large-
> capacity (14Gb+) 4mm tape drives.  These are fairly costly items,

I can only speak for 2-8GB 4mm DAT drives and unless you are only
using them for occasional backup I would not recommend DAT.

Here at a site we are running a nightly full backup of a
NT server (under NT) and it turned out that after a couple of weeks that
the head of the drive got worn out and older tapes could not be read
with same drive any more. We had to buy a new drive to get to our
older backups :-(

> and we want to make sure that we get one that we'll be happy with
> the first time.  I know that Exabyte 8500's are pretty good, but
> of course, that's an 8mm drive.
> 
> All replies will be appreciated!  Thanks.
> 
> Please reply directly, as I do not subscribe to this list.
> 
> 		   John Lind, Starfire Consulting Services
> E-mail: john@starfire.MN.ORG		USnail: PO Box 17247, Mpls MN  55417
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de