On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 08:13 -0500, gene heskett wrote:
Especially at home, where tape means DAT drive. I don't have any DAT
equivalent to store computer data, but 2 audio DAT recorders, both with
broken drives. Those drives with a thing for eating tapes. A friend has
got more, but just two DAT recorders, all recorders also with broken
drives. Another possible issue that isn't that seldom, is that the
carrier coat will loose contact to the magnetic coat. I never heard of
DAT tapes where this happened, but I know this from professional analog
video tapes. At least dropouts could arise by long time storage for such
small tapes. Ok, professional tapes for data storage might be 1/2" to
2", dunno, but of so, they might be very expensive. I just tar to my USB
stick from time to time or from one HD to another. If we need perfect
data security at home, IMO we should use RAID, but doing backups.
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