On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Ryan Novosielski wrote:

> If you can move to a DDS4 tape, you'll get 20GB uncompressed. DAT72
> (DDS5 with a different name) gets 36GB. There is not much difference in
> media prices these days if you can come up with a drive.

DAT/DDS are inherently unreliable, apparently due to the narrow tape
width. (8mm helical scan tape formats such as AIT are fine)

You might want to price up a LTO or DLT drive - LTO has a number of
features aimed at ensuring what's recorded on the tape is
checked/error-corrected at same time it's recorded.


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