Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 10:44:57 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: spork@super-g.com (spork) Cc: grog@lemis.com, louie@TransSys.COM, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu Subject: Re: DDS alternative Message-ID: <199901020944.KAA10768@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9901020017170.17111-100000@super-g.inch.com> from spork at "Jan 2, 99 00:18:30 am"
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As spork wrote... > We just switched to AIT drives. So far so good, has anyone run into > problems with those? The lifespan is supposed to be very comparable to > DLT, and the seek time is excellent... I've played with one once and it appears to work well. And it was very fast too. I can't comment on durability, but from looking at them I'd guess they are a whole lot better than DAT drives. Also the cartridges are more robust, as is the tape media. > Charles > > On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > Frequently. I read tapes written 5 years ago. That's the part that > > works :-) > > > > > I've heared to much horror stories about unreadable DAT tapes to > > > trust them... > > > > The trouble I have (and continue to have) is that the things have > > such a short life. I used to do a complete backup (4 hours tape > > motion) every night. Under those circumstances, the old DDS-1 drives > > lasted about 6 months, and the DDS-2 last about 18 months. > > > > Greg Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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