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From: pavlov@canisius.UUCP (Greg Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Reliability Exabyte tapes
Message-ID: <3235@canisius.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 91 05:48:42 GMT
References: <1781@svin02.info.win.tue.nl>
Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo N.Y. 14208
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In article <1781@svin02.info.win.tue.nl>, hansb@svin02.info.win.tue.nl (Hans Bouw) writes:
> 
> Does anyone know if the Sony p5-90MP video-8 tapes
> are reliable, can I restore files from those tapes
> after 2 years or should I use tapes from Maxell or
> Exabyte.

  A while ago, someone posted a long summary message of responses to a similar
  query.  This included a site that claimed to have done a substantial stress
  test comparing a number of 8MM cartridges.  The consensus was that the most
  reliable tapes were Exabyte's and SONY P6-120MPs.  Re the latter, there was
  a consensus that 1 out of apx. every 40-50 cartridges or so were found to
  be defective.  Our relatively short-term experience (apx. 7 months) has con-
  firmed this.

  pavlov@stewart.fstrf.org