[GTALUG] War Story: Asus UX305ca SSD failures

[James Knott]

On 2019-08-02 08:03 AM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote:
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>     > - 9-track mag tape: 10 years
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> Would this form factor be sized like commercial 8 track audio tape
> with an extra track squeezed in for sync? 

No, it was 1/2" tape on an open reel.  And it was 9 or 7 actual tracks,
with one track used for the parity bit.  They used odd parity, to
guaranty at least one "1" bit, to provide clocking for the NRZI encoding
used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-return-to-zero