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- From: ghg@en.ecn.purdue.edu (George Goble)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Exabyte 8500 Tapes
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.135020.13668@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 13:50:20 GMT
- References: <1992Sep7.092208.24633@comp.lancs.ac.uk> <6606@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com> <BRTMAC.92Sep7225137@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>
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- In article <BRTMAC.92Sep7225137@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy) writes:
- >
- >I don't have quite that amount of experience, but I've been using an EXB8500
- >for about a year now doing nightly backups of ~6G of total disk space (this
- >typically amounts to about 1.5G of data dumped each night). I use Sony
- >video grade cassettes and routinely get 480k/sec or better transfer rates.
- >The max sustained rate that the drive is supposed to be able to manage is
- >500k/sec so I don't think there is a drastic reduction in throughput. Now,
- >capacity is a different story. With the video grade cassettes I usually can
- >only get a maximum of 4.3G - 4.5G on a tape, but since I very rarely dump
- >that much at once it's no big deal. Maybe in the future when we get more
- >disk space and dump more each night it might make a difference.
- >
- The video grade, P6-120MP tapes are only 104 or 106 meters long.
- The Data grade tapes (really P5-90's) are 112 M long, so one can get
- 5GB on them instead of 4.3-4.5G. Most if not all the difference between
- 4.5G and 5.0G is from the tape length, not the error rewrite rates.
- On an old (== prototype) 8500, we are seeing rewrite rates of 0.03% to
- 0.08% which is essentially nothing (on video grade SONY P6-120MPs).
- Does anybody know of cheap sources for Sony P5-90's (approx $4.50 each)
- in the US? I have heard of the existance of a P6-150MP? Anybody?
- --ghg
-