[Info-vax] USB or SCSI TAPE

[Rod Regier]

to clarify:

USB DAT drives are the wave of the future compared to
any SCSI interface version of DAT drives.

I didn't encounter any data interchange issues with a DAT tape
written on one drive and reading it on another that supported that
density.  I don't make extensive use of that capability,
but I have used it occasionally.

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Concur that BDR is a much more long-term durable storage media.
Good luck finding a drive and software that can read a 1000-yr old
BDR in the future.  (Example of the computer media archivists nightmare.) 
Librarians are already having problems reading 8 inch laser disks due to hardware/software availability.