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List:       amanda-users
Subject:    Re: Tape Drives, why?
From:       "Anthony A. D. Talltree" <aad () verio ! net>
Date:       2002-06-30 22:55:09
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>> Where?  I'm not even aware of a 100G disk being sold.

>Seagate and IBM sell 120 GB ATA drives.  Street price is around
>$120-140. Seagate also has a 180 GB SCSI/FC-AL disk in their catalog,

With all due respect, those 120 and 180 aren't 100, and since ATA disks
are basically toys I wasn't even thinking of them.

>However, DLTs use the same single reel and
>hook and loop system as TK50s, so they can fail in the same way.  

Having had to disassemble a TK50 drive once to extract a tape, I was
rather wary of DLT drives when they first came out, but indeed that
problem seems to be gone.

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