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- From: ashley@oasis.gtefsd.com (Bob Ashley)
- Subject: Re: Lifetime of Exabyte tape?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.220808.1953@europa.asd.contel.com>
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- Organization: GTE Federal Systems Division
- References: <1992Sep1.192626.5134@ctr.columbia.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 22:08:08 GMT
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- In article 5134@ctr.columbia.edu, stevens@madvlsi.columbia.edu (Andy Stevens) writes:
- >Hi, I would like to know how many times I can record on an 8mm Exabyte
- >tape before it starts becoming unreliable. Is it 10 times? 20 times?
- >Anybody?
- >
- >--andy s.
- >
-
- I have tapes that I have been using for almost two years ... average write
- delta to a tape is once every four weeks, so I have put at least 20 dumps on
- each of those tape ... and those were used tapes when I got them !
-
- We recently had to restore data from our Development Server and the data came
- through like a champ ...
-
-
- Bob - same answer to the question: "How Many Licks Does It Take to Get to the
- Tootsie Roll Center of a Tootsie Pop ??" :-)
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