Reliability Exabyte tapes

[Andy Jackson]

In <1781 at svin02.info.win.tue.nl> hansb at svin02.info.win.tue.nl (Hans Bouw) writes:


>Hello there,

>Does anyone know if the Sony p5-90MP video-8 tapes
>are reliable, can I restore files from those tapes
>after 2 years or should I use tapes from Maxell or
>Exabyte.
>If you have any experience with these tapes or if
>you have seen test, please let me know.

>thanks,

>Hans Bouw,
>Thechnische Universiteit Eindhoven (Holland)
>E-Mail: hansb at win.tue.nl 

Hi,

SUN tell me to use only real exabyte exatapes with my drives. The
people we buy our tapes from have sent us sony p5-90mp tapes when
we asked for exatapes and we have also had a drive delivered with
a blank sony tape instead of  an exatape. On this evidence I believe
the sony tapes to be OK. Maxells you are supposed to avoid as they 
wear out the heads. We do tend to have a tape turn around of only
about 3-6 months however but the sony tapes have given no probs.

:-)

Andy Jackson
ajj at uk.ac.soton.ecs
University of Southampton UK.