Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!sgi!shinobu!odin!ramoth.esd.sgi.com!msc From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: Best 8mm tapes? Message-ID: <9800@odin.corp.sgi.com> Date: 30 Jun 90 02:05:08 GMT References: <938@voodoo.UUCP> <9006291803.AA10452@forest.asd.sgi.com> Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com Reply-To: msc@sgi.com Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Entry Systems Division Lines: 16 In article , jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman) writes: |> If top quality tapes don't guarantee long term data storage, will SGI |> or a third-party have a DAT subsystem out soon? I understand they |> are much better in this regard. |> Recent articles in rec.video indicate that DAT will not perform any better than 8mm video tape with regard to tape stretching, data longevity etc. Once article mentioned that because DAT's contain digital data with 2 levels of error detection and correction the effects of stretched tape will be reduced. However when using 8mm video for backup the data is digital... -- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow msc@ramoth.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl}!sgi!msc "There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play. It strongly defines its content."