Poll; Tape drives

[Duncan MacGregor]

On February 27, 2008 02:54:42 pm Madison Kelly wrote:
> Quick, informal and terribly unscientific poll...
>
> 1. Do you still uses tape drives?
> 2. If you were looking at a new backup system, would you want to use
> tape drives?

"Why *would* someone choose to use tape these days?"

Indeed. I have not used tape since the brand new, never used tape that I had 
purchased to back up a client's system disintegrated in my hands.  

The failing tape had been made  five years earlier, and had never been used.

Never again.


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