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From: larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: 150 Meg SCSI Tape Drives
Message-ID: <1990Sep21.115601.18269@nstar.uucp>
Date: 21 Sep 90 11:56:01 GMT
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rutland@stdc01.UUCP (John Rutland) writes:

>I have been following the recent postings on 150 M SCSI tape
>drives. Looking through PC Week and Computer Shopper I find
>the Wangtek 5150ES for about $800 and the Archive 2150S for
>about $500 (both bare drive). Is there some difference in 
>features that would account for this price difference 

Last I heard the Wangtek has ceramic heads - while the archive
has metal heads - and the ceramic heads do much better at writing
and reading the 250 megabytes 6250 tapes

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