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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: On backups
Message-ID: <5996@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-May-87 14:17:39 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 14 14:17:39 1987
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Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: backup
Summary: tape still better?


There is a company supposedly shipping a 1GB (yes GB as in "great big")
tape drive which connects to an SCSI interface and uses 8mm video tape.
The error rates quoted are comparable to standard mag tape, I believe the
transfer rate is slower. On the other hand, as long as the transfer rate
is faster than the ethernet rate, I wouldn't expect any loss in performance.

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