Tape Backup Prices

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 01:03:46AM -0500, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> Many years ago I was using 4mm DAT to do backups using tape drives that had
> a SCSI interface. In the few years I used the tapes, I never had one go 
> bad on me. I stopped using tape backups after the three tape drives died 
> on me.

I remember many DDS tapes going bad.  Usually 15 or 20 write cycles was
it for the tapes.

Hopefully you remembered to clean the tape drives once in a while,
or the head might quit on you.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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