Author: "Joshua S. Bassi" <jbassi AT GLORYWORKS DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 09:40:29 -0800
What I have heard from IBM hardware out of Tucson for the 3570 carts is a flat out 10 year tape life. -- Joshua S. Bassi Joshua S. Bassi Senior Technical Consultant Symatrix Technology, Inc. jbassi A
Author: Tab Trepagnier <Tab.Trepagnier AT LAITRAM DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:08:45 -0600
Joshua, That might be the average, but we've seen a few go bad sooner than that. We pull Magstars out of our primary backup pools after 500 mounts. If there has been no problem reported by the tape,