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From: adam@ncifcrf.gov (Adam W. Feigin)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Exabyte 8mm Tape life
Message-ID: <1436@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov>
Date: 15 Dec 89 14:20:30 GMT
Reply-To: adam@ncifcrf.gov
Organization: National Cancer Institute, Frederick
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We've got a couple of Exabyte tape drives hooked to our Suns, and one
of our researchers is currently using some tapes for semi-long-term
data archiving. He's heard rumors that the life of the 8mm tapes is
about 3 months (sounds pretty fishy to me), and he's starting to worry
about the integrity of the data he's stored on the tapes.

Does anyone have any idea what the 'shelf-life' of the Sony 8mm Media
is ? How long will the data be 'readable' by the drive after the tape
is written ???

Any data/help is much appreciated.

							AWF







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