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From: rodney@solar.card.inpu.oz.au (Rodney Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: ExaByte (8mm) vs DAT (4mm)
Summary: Problems with ExaByte Plus Benefits.
Keywords: ExaByte, DAT, storage, backup
Message-ID: <1990Jul24.013116.28186@solar.card.inpu.oz.au>
Date: 24 Jul 90 01:31:16 GMT
Organization: Telecom Australia
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We have a number of ExaByte drives here at work and I have a number of
words of praise for them as well as some words of disgust. Firstly I don't
know much about the DAT drive (don't have any) so I can't really compare
the two. The ExaByte's have quite a high transfer rate ~200KB/sec but
sometimes this extra speed is almost outweighed by the five minutes I HAVE
to wait for it to allow the drive door to be opened and eject the tape.
Sometimes even when there is no tape inside I have to wait before I put
one in. Most annoying!!!. We have also had problems with compatability
between machines - The tape written on one machine could not be read on
any other machine except the one it was written on (we have about 4
ExaByte drives here - all the same brand and supplier). I still use the
drive a great deal though and would never go back to 1/4 inch drives if I
can help it - I use it to back up about 2 Gig a week.
	Have a great time choosing,		Rodney.
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Rodney Campbell			MHSnet: rodney@solar.card.inpu.oz.au
Telecom Australia		Snail:  8th Floor, 91 York Street
Corporate Customer Division		Sydney 2000.
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