Reliability Exabyte tapes
Greg Pavlov
pavlov at canisius.UUCP
Mon Feb 25 16:48:42 AEST 1991
In article <1781 at svin02.info.win.tue.nl>, hansb at svin02.info.win.tue.nl (Hans Bouw) writes:
>
> Does anyone know if the Sony p5-90MP video-8 tapes
> are reliable, can I restore files from those tapes
> after 2 years or should I use tapes from Maxell or
> Exabyte.
A while ago, someone posted a long summary message of responses to a similar
query. This included a site that claimed to have done a substantial stress
test comparing a number of 8MM cartridges. The consensus was that the most
reliable tapes were Exabyte's and SONY P6-120MPs. Re the latter, there was
a consensus that 1 out of apx. every 40-50 cartridges or so were found to
be defective. Our relatively short-term experience (apx. 7 months) has con-
firmed this.
pavlov at stewart.fstrf.org
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