Most guys I know with DAT loaders burn the heads up within a
year (your mileage will vary).
Thanks for your overview. When we used DAT, we had three drives. Each one
went in at least once a year for warranty service. Once warranty expired,
it was cheaper to simply replace the drive.
Since
Daniel Knight wrote:
Most guys I know with DAT loaders burn the heads up within a
year (your mileage will vary).
Thanks for your overview. When we used DAT, we had three drives. Each one
went in at least once a year for warranty service. Once warranty expired,
it was cheaper to simply
Here's why most DATs fail in autoloaders:
Most people buy DAT loaders to compensate for the low capacity per tape.
The idea is to have the tapes changed automatically in the night or over a
weekend. None of us are thrilled with the idea of having to come into the
office on our personal time to
This is interesting, but I don't think I've ever had a DAT failure
due to bad heads. Most of the autoloaders we have have the problem
with the autoloader itself. Pull the DAT drive out of the autoloader
and it works fine most of the time. We did have one drive go bad,
but it was related to
