Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!uunet!ingr!b11!mcconnel From: mcconnel@b11.ingr.com (Guy McConnell) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: DAT versus 8mm Tape Message-ID: <9424@b11.ingr.com> Date: 16 Nov 90 22:41:34 GMT References: <272DB1E1.9737@orion.oac.uci.edu> <9850005@hpcpbla.HP.COM> Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL Lines: 25 In article , tim@gumby.cs.caltech.edu (Timothy L. Kay) writes: > pavlov@canisius.UUCP (Greg Pavlov) writes: > > I have some doubt about the long-term viability of the data stored on either > > of these formats. But since I do, I would rather bet on the lower density > > of the 8mm medium, when considering two units of the same capacity. > > Exabyte is claiming that the data should be readable for at least ten years > if you use their tapes. (Their tapes cost $40 each! I'd rather use the > $4.75 variety and take my chances.) And when you are going to record that new (insert favorite band here) CD to cassette for the Walkman, the car stereo, or that friend that doesn't have a CD player, what are you going to use to record it on? The 4/$1.00 variety of tapes or Chromium Dioxide? That's what I thought. Anyway, its your data. -- ============================================================================ Guy D. McConnell | | "I'd like to be Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL. | Opinions expressed | under the sea Mass Storage Peripheral Evaluation | are mine and do not | In an octopus' Tape Products | necessarily reflect | garden in the uunet!ingr!b11!mspe5!guy | Intergraph's. | shade..." (205)730-6289 FAX (205)730-6011 | | --The Beatles-- ============================================================================