On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 07:36:25PM +0000, Ray Kelly wrote:
> [1] though if you're using Exabyte Mammoth tapes you're on even odds as to
> which is better
<EMPATHY>I feel your pain</EMPATHY>. A Mammorth is the biggest backup device
I have in the house. I came across a nearly new, unused, drive for very
little, used it maybe twice testing and started to look into the cost of
tapes, which is when I first started to debate IDE disks vs. tapes with
Wesley. That was a few months ago, and even then the Mammoth types were only
slightly less per GB than disks - I imagine the balance has swung in the
favour of disks by now. Anyway, said drive has since developed a dirty mind
- it alwats wants to be cleaned, and having completed a cleaning cycle, it
still wants to be cleaned. So I gave up on the Mammoth, and the price of
the tapes ceased to be an issue :-(
Niall
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