[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-07-27, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
> Bill Gunshannon  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>As opposed to DAT's which I have seen suffer data loss in as little
>>as a month.
>
> I have actually had pretty good luck with DDS tapes.  It's the Exabytes that
> are most horrible.  Many of them suffered data loss the moment they were
> written.

A WORN drive ? (Write Once, Read Never) :-)

Seriously however, when I was considering backup options back when
Exabytes were a thing, I never considered them because of reported
issues even back then.

Simon.

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