On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 05:50:02PM -0400, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> >> The DDS2 is a little small and I would like to
> >> replace it with a DLT of
> >> some sort, but those tend to be quite expensive.
> >
> >>From where I'm sitting, you don't want DLT. I support
> >a very tape intensive product, and DLT isn't up to it.
> >Never was. I'm not sure about DDS4, but it's probably
> >a viable option. It's not as fast I think. But I do
> >know that DLT gets far more write errors than any of
> >the other stuff I deal with on a regular basis (STK,
> >IBM, LTO).
> 
> I've had the EXACT opposite experience.  My DLT has been rock solid.
> 
> When I asked about tape drives before I bought my DLT, everyone who had
> a DLT loved them.  The one time I actually tried to restore a DDS backup tape
> it failed, so I'm pretty leery of them.  I've done successful restores using
> my DLT, so I feel pretty good about it.

Yes, I've got tons of problems with DAT or hexabytes, especially trying
to read back old tapes, or tapes written by a different drive.
After 4 years of use one of my DLT needed his head to be remplaced (which may
be related to a too high use of cleaning tape), but other than that
I never got problems with them.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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