cbs@cs.cmu.edu (Clauss Strauch) (06/18/91)
I've seen the hype and some of the technical data comparing 8mm to
4mm tape drives, but would like to hear people's practical experiences with
the two media. Specifically:
-- Experiences with reliablity, both for the drives and
the media (how well do the tapes hold up to repeated
use/abuse?).
-- The 90m (2 GB w/o compression) DAT drives are available,
but are the drives and media as reliable as the lower-
capacity ones? It seems like just a short while ago
the 90m tapes were bleeding edge.
-- Anything else that gets left out of the advertising
blurbs and technical specifications, but might cause a
sysadmin to prefer one technology over the other.
-- Clauss Strauch
Engineering Design Research Center
Carnegie Mellon University
cbs@edrc.cmu.edu