Re: DDS-3 or DDS-4?

2000-03-08 Thread SK Suh
At 10:58 AM +0100 03/08/2000, Serge Paulus wrote: >Ever tried DLT tapes? it's expensive but I NEVER had a damaged tape >in 5 years. On the contrary, ± 50 DAT tapes (120m) are damaged >(after incremental backups, never reusing a tape) in my archives of >±250 tapes... Thanks for all of the respo

RE: DDS-3 or DDS-4?

2000-03-08 Thread O'Donnell, Dan (NBC)
3000 W. Alameda Ave. Burbank CA 91523 818.840.6610 (voice) 818.840.3390 (fax) > -Original Message- > From: Serge Paulus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 1:59 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: DDS-3 or DDS-4? > > > Ever tried

Re: DDS-3 or DDS-4?

2000-03-08 Thread Serge Paulus
Ever tried DLT tapes? it's expensive but I NEVER had a damaged tape in 5 years. On the contrary, ± 50 DAT tapes (120m) are damaged (after incremental backups, never reusing a tape) in my archives of ±250 tapes... -- Serge Paulus Helpdesk Microscript s.a. 51 rue du Poinçon B-1000 Brussels 322/2

Re: DDS-3 or DDS-4?

2000-03-07 Thread SK Suh
At 10:18 PM -0800 03/06/2000, Chuck Hornish wrote: >We have a Sony DDS-4 which can write to 90-meter tapes, but not the >60-meter variety. Thanks for the enlightening info, Chuck! Will DDS-4 at least read the older 60 metre DAT media? Stephen K. Suh

Re: DDS-3 or DDS-4?

2000-03-07 Thread andrew
rchiving CDs onto DVD-RAM soonat least I'll be able to get 8 CDs on a single disc. - Original Message - From: "Robin Bateman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "retro-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 9:37 AM Subject: Re: DDS-3 or DDS-4

Re: DDS-3 or DDS-4?

2000-03-07 Thread Robin Bateman
gt; Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 09:20:52 -0500 > To: "retro-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: DDS-3 or DDS-4? > > Have verified those archives recently? I've found that many of my DDS-2 > archives from three years ago, on Sony, Maxell, Verbatim, and Fuji tapes, >

Re: DDS-3 or DDS-4?

2000-03-07 Thread andrew
PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 11:41 PM Subject: Re: DDS-3 or DDS-4? > At 8:35 PM -0800 03/06/2000, Chuck Hornish wrote: > >I'd suggest getting rid of the 60-Meter tapes and re-writing the > >data onto longer tapes. Are you keeping the catalogs as well as the &g

Re: DDS-3 or DDS-4?

2000-03-06 Thread Chuck Hornish
SK Suh wrote: > > At 8:35 PM -0800 03/06/2000, Chuck Hornish wrote: > >I'd suggest getting rid of the 60-Meter tapes and re-writing the > >data onto longer tapes. Are you keeping the catalogs as well as the > >tapes? Are these tapes archives or backups? > > We would hopefully be keeping old cata

Re: DDS-3 or DDS-4?

2000-03-06 Thread SK Suh
At 8:35 PM -0800 03/06/2000, Chuck Hornish wrote: >I'd suggest getting rid of the 60-Meter tapes and re-writing the >data onto longer tapes. Are you keeping the catalogs as well as the >tapes? Are these tapes archives or backups? We would hopefully be keeping old catalogs and 60/90 metre tapes, a

Re: DDS-3 or DDS-4?

2000-03-06 Thread Chuck Hornish
SK Suh wrote: > > Am shopping for a DAT drive replacement for our aging Dynatek DDS-1 > (or -2?) unit for archival use. This DAT would be attached to an > older beige Power Macintosh G3 and would be writing data from a local > hard drive, not over the network. > > Ideally I'd like to be able to

DDS-3 or DDS-4?

2000-03-06 Thread SK Suh
Am shopping for a DAT drive replacement for our aging Dynatek DDS-1 (or -2?) unit for archival use. This DAT would be attached to an older beige Power Macintosh G3 and would be writing data from a local hard drive, not over the network. Ideally I'd like to be able to utilize newer, faster and