[H-GEN] Further to Saturday's discussion on backups ...

[Robert Brockway]

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On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Ewan Edwards wrote:

> There was a statement or two made about the superiority of the DLT 
> technology, mainly because of the lack of contact between the tape and the 
> read/write heads.  

Indeed, I made this statement :)  The only caveat is that I referred to it
as the only "low end" tape technology that did this.  I know next to
nothing about any tape technology above the DLT family except that I know
they store lots & are very expensive :)

> Is this statement equally valid regarding LTO technology?

Unfortunately I have no idea.  Never had the fortune to play with LTO.
Rob

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