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- From: det@hawkmoon.mn.org (Derek Terveer)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: advice on DAT drives
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.024345.7363@hawkmoon.mn.org>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 02:43:45 GMT
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- evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
- : There is another, fairly recent, alternative.
- :
- : A number of tape drive companies (Archive, Tandberg, Sankyo) have come
- : out with drives which will support the 3M "Magnus" QIC cartridge. These
- : will store about 1.3GB on a QIC tape, and are reported to have faster
- : data-transfer rates than DATs. They're also considerably cheaper than DATs.
- : (Well, the drives are. The 1.3GB media is a bit more expensive than DATs).
- : evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!utzoo!telly!evan
-
- Very interesting! I am in the market right now for a decent sized backup
- and this looks like it could do it for me. Do you have any literature
- references?? I haven't heard of this before.
-
- derek
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