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?