From: Alan B. <aj...@ms...> - 2004-02-20 12:13:02
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On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Johan Decock wrote: > We don't have tapes anymore. The streamers seem to be letting us down > every three years or so. Leaving us with a bunch of useless tapes. Why are the tapes useless? Because you can't get another tape drive? I'm not trying to make fun of you. I just want to find out why people find tapes are a problem. FWIW we always buy our tape drives with 3 year maintenance contracts. If one fails, it's replaced the next day and at the end of the drive's life (usually 3-4 years) we migrate all the existing media to the new format. This leads to a lot of old stuff laying round - we have 1900bpi open reels for-instance, but the data on them is already recovered. |