On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, RYAN ANDERSON wrote:

>Do any of you have standards in place to determine how long a DLT tape
>is good for? I have several DLT IV tapes which are a couple years old,
>and admitedly I don't have a lot of problems with them, but I assume
>they're usefulness will decline; I just don't know when.
>
>
>RCA
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I asked our H/W support people this question about our DLT7000 tapes and
they said that officially (according to the producer) they are supposed
to last many years. We've been able to use the old 8GB Exabyte tapes
from 5-6 years ago, so I tend to believe it.


        Miriam


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