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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Sep 2003 01:31:37 +0100 |
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On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 05:05:36PM -0700, David Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:42:48PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
>
> > DAT tapes use a helixal wind mechanism. Now those are *really*
> > unreliable - they put a great deal of strain on everything
> > involved. Both the drives and the tapes are prone to failure.
>
> AIT tapes are also helical, but they have one of the highest reliability
> values for backup media. Or, at least that is what they tell me.
Everybody who makes backup devices says that :P
The problem is that "one of the highest" can be interpreted to mean
pretty much anything.
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Robin Farine, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Florian Weimer, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Robin Farine, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Florian Weimer, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Robin Farine, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Miles Bader, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Robin Farine, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Andrew Suffield, 2003/09/29
- [OT] psychofs (was: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch), Robin Farine, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, David Brown, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch,
Andrew Suffield <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Charles Duffy, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Florian Weimer, 2003/09/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Bruce Stephens, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch [reiserfs-bashing], Charles Duffy, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch [reiserfs-bashing], Miles Bader, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Momchil Velikov, 2003/09/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Adam Spiers, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Tom Lord, 2003/09/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Momchil Velikov, 2003/09/27