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Sean,

>I had my last DDS drive put down.  It served me fairly
>well for a couple years, and I'll miss it.  But now it's
>time to stop running on "autopilot" and get a new
>backup system.

I agree 100% on that matter, helical is not the best.

two strong and well used technologies ate DLT and QIC/SLR. I went for
the second one as it is even simpler than DLT (much less mechanics in
the drive). At least Tandberg offers anything from 5 to 400GB
(compressed).

Good luck,

Olivier

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