On Sat, 2013-07-13 at 12:18 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > On Jul 13, 2013, at 3:08 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > I'm interested in experiences of others. In my experience CDs and DVDs > > more likely will fail, than HDDs do. > > My 10 DLT tapes
I don't know DLT, but many people I know and myself have experiences with DAT. The tapes are equal to DDS. The problem here aren't the tapes, but the drives. I never heard of a DAT drive that lived very long, neither consumer, nor professional studio DATs. The mechanic is comparable with VHS video recorders, but they are that small, that the size of a drive sometimes is as small as a Walkman. Spaghettied tapes are a common issue for DAT, since DDS is the same I won't trust it and I suspect DLT doesn't differ much. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1373743671.669.21.camel@archlinux