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Subject: Re: Need a Tape Drive Recommendation
To: robert@elastica.com (Robert Nicholson)
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 18:12:35 +0200 (MET DST)
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Robert Nicholson writes:
>
> You would be incredibly stupid not to buy the HP 1533A dat drive (AKA
> the support HP product is the SureStore 6000e)  HP 1533A is the OEM
> drive that some suppliers will sell you. A friend recently purchased a
> 6000e for about $850 I think which is a good price.
>
> There's simply no better dat drive solution.

I have severe reliability problems with HP DDS (so-called DAT) drives.
I've been through 5 HP35480As, and so far one 1533A.  None of them
lasted more than 9 months, the 1533 made about 5 (most of which time I
was away).  I get by by having two drives, so I have a spare while the
other one is being exchanged.

Greg