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- From: det@hawkmoon.mn.org (Derek Terveer)
- Subject: Re: what to optimize with DAT drives?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.202932.24134@hawkmoon.mn.org>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:29:32 GMT
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- In article <9850053@hpcpbla.bri.hp.com>, mark@hpcpbla.bri.hp.com (Mark Simms) writes...
- >DAT drives will wear out faster if they do not stream. The main
- >failures are due to actual tape pulling time which affects head wear,
- >repositions which affects wear in the tape pulling mechanism and
- >tapeloading which affects wear in the tape load mechanism. If the
- >tape does not stream, then this rapidly becomes the dominant factor.
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- I would think that this would also affect 8mm drives as well???
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- derek
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