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Article #9495Re: Exabyte 8mm tape drives come of age
From: David L. Markowitz
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1988 07:14
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1988 07:14
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ghg@en.ecn.purdue.edu (George Goble) wrote a great letter about "Exabyte 8mm tape drives come of age", but we still have concerns regarding shelf life of stored tape. Have any of you Exabyte users had any problems with old, stored tape? (I know there isn't much "old" tape out there.) What are the recommended environmental parameters for storage? (min and max temperature, humidity, etc.?) On a related subject, how many hours of use have individual drives been subjected to without failure (just post-June 1988 drives)? Comments like "we used our 14 drives for 1000 hours, with each one being upgraded halfway through" don't reflect the expected lifetime of the Sony tape transport. David L. Markowitz Rockwell International ...!sun!sunkist!arcturus!dav dav@arcturus.UUCP The above opinions are merely that, and only mine.
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