8 May
2007
8 May
'07
7:51 p.m.
On May 8, 2007, at 8:40 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Personally I'd rate it a bit different.
DLT > 4mm DAT > QIC > 8mm
My ordering would be:
DLT > QIC > 4mm DAT > 8mm
In my experience, both 4mm and 8mm are "write-only backups". I
shy away from any helical-scan media at this point. DLT is rock-
solid and I trust my most critical stuff to it every day. It's hard
to believe that it grew out of the abominable TK-50!
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
8 mm wasn't bad. At about that time, we were
heavily involved in
specifying tape for customers and we tended to rank things this way:
DLT > 8mm > 4mm DAT > Travan > QIC.
Interesting. That's about my assessment too, though I don't use
tapes
all that much.