I echo John Burke's advice.

John Lee
Vaske Computer Solutions

At 11:32 AM 6/23/03 -0700, John Burke wrote:
>Four months seems a tad short for mean time to failure. ;-)
>
>Seriously though, it generally depends upon how often you use them. I had a
>number of DDS-2 drives that lasted up to two years, but they were only used
>once a day to store and verify.
>
>That said, anything else, DDS-3, DDS-4, DLT, is better than the DDS-2. Denys
>is right the DDS-2 are notorious for their failure rate. While DLT would be
>your best choice, as Denys suggests, your system may not easily accommodate
>DLT, in which case a DDS-3 or DDS-4 will give you better reliability than
>the DDS-2 and will not cost as much as DLT. Remember you also need at least
>one working DDS drive to read media from HP or your third party vendors.
>
>John Burke
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