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- From: tjb@strangeways.unh.edu (Thomas J. Baker)
- Subject: 8mm vs. 4mm (DAT)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.181239.740@strangeways.unh.edu>
- Organization: University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 18:12:39 GMT
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- Anyone with any experiences in this area? I have the opportunity to either
- buy a used 2 year old Exabyte 8200 8mm or to wait a few more months and buy
- a new 4mm DAT for the same ~$1000 price. I've compared them (I had both
- the Exabyte in question and a DEC TLZ04 bolted to my color turbo) and they
- are pretty similiar in performance. The Exabyte was about 10 minutes quicker
- in backing up about 700MB but there are more DAT drives on campus than 8mm.
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- Any experience would be greately appreciated.
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- tjb
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