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From: hascall@cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
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Subject: Re: Exabyte (8mm) versus DAT (4mm)
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Date: 10 Jul 90 01:37:32 GMT
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gary@proa.SV.DG.COM () writes:
}de5@ornl.gov (Dave Sill) writes:
 [... DAT vs 8mm...]
}The big questions are ...
} ... and 4) how fast does it backup data.

   Everyone seems to have avoided this one.  Since we will have 32GB
   to back up in the very near future this is *real* important to us.

   According to DEC it looks like their DATs can do a 10 MBytes/min
   (with a stiff tailwind? :-).  I've heard the 8mm are somewhat
   faster--does anyone have some real data on either of these?

John Hascall
john@iastate.edu  /  hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu