Subject: Re: DLT or DAT72?
To: Jukka Marin <jmarin@embedtronics.fi>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/05/2004 20:30:07
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 07:05:40PM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> Looking for a larger backup media, I was offered a DLT drive and a HP
> DAT72 drive.  The DLT drives cost twice as much and the DLT tapes are
> 25% more expensive than DAT72 tapes.  I'm being told that DLT is more
> reliable.
> 
> Experiences, recommendations?

I got lots of troubles with DAT drives trying to re-read medias, never any
problems with DLT.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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