Reliability Exabyte tapes

[Paul Slootman]

Someone said: (I'm afraid I didn't get the original, we're new to news)
> The consensus was that the most reliable tapes were Exabyte's and
> SONY P6-120MPs.  Re the latter, there was a consensus that 1 out of
> apx. every 40-50 cartridges or so were found to be defective.  Our
> relatively short-term experience (apx. 7 months) has con- firmed this.

I've heard this before. I only wonder whether defective tapes are
detected right away, or only after having been used for some time. I
prefer the first...

Paul.
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