Re: Lowest-cost archive medium
Please, NO!
DO NOT mention DAT and backups together!
The only media worse than DAT is VHS tapes. Even 8mm tapes were better!
Hear hear! I've had lots of different DAT drives and they've all been unreliable. Pretty useless really.
Whereas Exabyte (8mm), DLT/LTO have performed very reliably. Even QIC (I'm talking about DC600 and DC6150 cartridges here...) was fairly realiable. I did briefly try Tandberg's SLR and it seemed OK too, but didn't use it long enough to make proper judgement.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
