20 May
2007
20 May
'07
6:22 a.m.
On 5/20/07, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On May 20, 2007, at 12:37 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Wow! Cool box. I used to run an SDLT jukebox with somewhere around
30 tapes, and I missed the chance to scavenge a 7-tape DLT III box,
but 110 tapes is a *lot* of media.
Can I ask roughly how much you paid per tape?
Are DLT IV tapes
(20GB uncompressed) worth the effort of tracking down and shipping?
We pitched out several hundred new-in-box DLT IV tapes from South Pole
over six months ago,
!!
I just spent a big pile of money populating a 110-slot juke with
DLT-IV media. Though I suppose the thought of shipping them from
the south pole
will quell the vomit rising in my innards.
Something else that might help is that a) they were pitched out after
I left, and b) there was no way to know if they had or had not been
subjected to temperatures outside of their comfort zone on their way
down or while being moved from one part of the station to another.
One could, I guess, employ random sampling to see if there were any
gross problems with writes/reads, but given the journey they took,
there's just no way to know if they were environmentally stressed or
not.
-ethan