Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 10:50:33 -1000 From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommend 8mm exabyte drives? Message-ID: <199701092050.KAA05634@pegasus.com> In-Reply-To: Simon Reading <aat81@dial.pipex.com> "Recommend 8mm exabyte drives?" (Jan 9, 6:58pm)
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} } I'm considering 8mm exabyte as a (?more reliable) alternative to 4mm DAT. } } Would you recommend these drives? } I've been using them for many years with good results. I have the $300 2Gig unit at home which works well with $3 Sony video tapes. And I use a number of 14Gig units at work, including a two-drive ten-tape juke-box (SparcStorage Library) which all work fairly well. We stick with official data quality tapes for the higher capacity units. Mostly, you just need to clean them regularly. And if you use them heavily the heads will wear out -- though apparently much less quickly than on DAT drives. There are also fewer compatibility problems between different drives with Exabytes than with DATs. Fewer different formats. Richard
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