8mm vs. 4mm (DAT)

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From: Thomas J. Baker
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 18:12

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Anyone with any experiences in this area?  I have the opportunity to either
buy a used 2 year old Exabyte 8200 8mm or to wait a few more months and buy
a new 4mm DAT for the same ~$1000 price.  I've compared them (I had both
the Exabyte in question and a DEC TLZ04 bolted to my color turbo) and they
are pretty similiar in performance.  The Exabyte was about 10 minutes quicker
in backing up about 700MB but there are more DAT drives on campus than 8mm.

Any experience would be greately appreciated.

tjb

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From: tjb@strangeways.unh.edu (Thomas J. Baker)
Subject: 8mm vs. 4mm (DAT)
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