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Subject: Re: SCSI tape back that works under FreeBSD
To: Noor Dawod <noor@comrax.com>
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Hi Noor,

generally from my experience I can't recomment DAT as a backup media. They
are cheap but also not very durable. I rather recommend DLT or LTO drives.

The reason for this is simple my experience showed me, that a DAT media
gets unreadable after a year of use, then you have to buy new ones, with
DLTs or LTOs I really can say they last very much longer (I admit my
experience with LTOs is only for 2 years now ;-).

- Joe


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