[wplug] Exabyte tape drives and tapes.

[Procario, Michael]

You want to get data grade tapes. At Fermilab (a particle physics lab
outside Chicago) they used exabytes for recording experimental data.
Originally we used video tapes and we found a lot of failures. When we
standardized on data grade tapes the failures stopped. Most of the tapes
were written once and read multiple times. 

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Sammon [mailto:Brian_Sammon at yardarm.fac.cs.cmu.edu]
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 4:31 AM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Cc: Brian_Sammon at yardarm.fac.cs.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: [wplug] Exabyte tape drives and tapes.


> Does anyone know how difficult it would be to find 8mm tapes for an
> Exabyte 8205XLS SCSI tape drive?  I am considering picking one up, but I

If these use standard 8mm data tapes (I think they do), you'll have no 
real problem finding tapes for them (i.e., maybe not always available at 
CompUSA et al, but dozens of mail-order sources)

8mm data tapes are essentially the same tapes as are used in 8mm video 
cameras, just (I think) made to higher standards or something.
So, in a pinch, you could use 8mm video tapes, but they might not be as 
reliable.

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