Currently using DDS C1539 DAT drives I am replacing 1 drive every other
week. (no joke). My concern now is my backup integrity. Time to look forward
at the new FW-SCSI DLTs from HP.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Clogg [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 1998 11:08 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Dat Drives
>
> YES!!!
>
> >>> "Simonsen, Larry" <[log in to unmask]> 06/11/98
> 09:17am >>>
> Seems that with the reliability of the DAT tape drives and if you have
> multiple systems transferring data the reliability (which we have come
> to expect from a HP system) is fails miserably at the backup state.
> We are getting ready to install a 3000-918LX in Australia needing to
> transfer occasionally data from the states to there and back.
> Should we buy DLT and not DAT drives?