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  3. From: johnn@eskimo.celestial.com (John Navitsky)
  4. Subject: Re: Exabyte 8500 Tapes
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep8.170341.17763@eskimo.celestial.com>
  6. Organization: =>ESKIMO NORTH (206) 367-3837 SEATTLE, WA.<=
  7. References: <3217@peking.gdwb.oz.au> <pge9pm4@zuni.esd.sgi.com> <1992Sep6.144956.7974@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
  8. Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 17:03:41 GMT
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  11. Another 2 cents:
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  13. We use both data grade and video grade tapes on our 8500 w/compression. 
  14. I've had acceptable performance with both.  Our drive (from Contemporary 
  15. Cybernetics Group) has a display that indicates % of re-writes.  The book
  16. indicates acceptable performance.  Typical % re-writes with the exabyte tapes
  17. are about .1 %.  Typical for video (Sony MP video tapes) is about .3 %.  In
  18. my mind if the %age creaps up over .5% it is probably time to replace the
  19. tape.
  20.  
  21.   -john
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  25.   John Navitsky                        e-mail   johnn@eskimo.celestial.com
  26.                                                johnn@locke.hs.washington.ed
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