[SunRescue] Tape drive

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Saturday, May 19, 2001 at 17:10:52 (-0400), Ken Hansen wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Tape drive
>
> So I guess the answer is do you want to spend a lot on tapes, or on the
> drives? ;^)

I'll bet that DLT will give less headaches and problems, especially with
the media.  You do pay for what you get in that case!

I constantly have problems with 8mm tapes and sometimes with the drives,
and I've never seen a 4mm drive that didn't die young.

I'll trade my EXB-210 library with Eliant-820 drive for any DLT based
library any day!  ;-)

Whatever you do don't get an AIT drive.  They combine the bad aspects of
helical scan tapes with a lot of added expense in the media.

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