[Info-vax] TK50 - this is annoying...

Paul Sture nospam at sture.ch
Wed Oct 10 06:51:38 EDT 2012


In article <47b4666a-ac5e-4f05-b920-91a8596b4550 at googlegroups.com>,
 urbancamo <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:

> Just to add my 2 cents. Firstly, I don't disagree with anything said. I don't 
> rely on DDS any more is healthy.
> 
> However, on a slightly different tack data longevity is perhaps less of an 
> issue. I have read several DDS1/DDS2 tapes recently that were written in 1994 
> without any issues. 
> 
> My usage pattern for DDS is typically to only use an individual tape a few 
> dozen times, so maybe that pattern has saved me from disaster.

That's akin to my TK50 usage, though definitely more than a few dozen 
times.

My problem with DDS drives was that one day out of the blue they would 
stop working or refuse to load tapes, and you needed to call an engineer 
out.  A pain in the neck but not too bad when you have a maintenance 
contract with short response times.  Pretty bad on a home system.

-- 
Paul Sture



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