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Article #197Re: Sun/Exabyte 8500, Sun/Sony CD-ROM drives, Sun junk
From: jason andrade
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 21:45
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 21:45
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"Trevor Breusch" <bretstat@beatbox.anu.edu.au> writes: >The 8500 gets 5GB on a 112 metre tape (and more if your software does >compression). >I have lots of used tapes (data grade 112 metre) and a few new ones (120 >minute video tapes). nod - i knew one sysadmin who did all their data backups onto video tapes (120m) - however his trick was "never ever reuse the tape for writing" - it was a strictly write once mechanism. personally i shudder a bit at the thought - the video grade stuff seemed much thinner than the exabyte tapes. -jason
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