14 Mar
2005
14 Mar
'05
11:51 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nico de Jong" <nico at FARUMDATA.DK>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: Mag Tapes was RE: Got Videotrax card working
From: "Paul Koning" <pkoning at
equallogic.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: Mag Tapes was RE: Got Videotrax card working
I couldnt agree more. QIC-80 (including Travan) and
QIC-2000 are a
nightmare. The same goes for DAT
Reel-to-reel and 3480/3490 are the best I've worked with, closely followed
by DC600.
The reason (for me) that DC600 is second best, is that the error recovery
is
much easier
Nico
About a year or so ago I restored over 100 Colorado 120mb QIC tapes used
from 1990-1994 (over 10 years old and not recorded with
my drive) without a
single error on any of them. I find the old QIC 120mb tapes to
be highly
reliable, but I think my Travan 1.6/3.2GB DITTO drive is a POS and have
since quit using it.
I have a couple DAT 2/4GB and 4/8GB drives that work ok, but I have only had
them for a few years so I don't know how reliable they are over longer
periods of time.
Backing up to 16x DVD+R disks is much faster and cheaper, I wonder if I can
read the files in 10 years.