> FYI: Media that has an alignment track laid down by the manufacturer > will be destroyed by using a tape degausser, so a quick test to see if > your drive uses an alignment track is to take a tape media you plan to > throw-out and run a $30 tape degauser across it. If the tape fails to > work at all, then you had an alignment track. > > FYI2: I don't know if most tape drives today have alignment capability > or not. I do know that DDR4 type drives of 10 years ago did not. And > the LTO-1 drives I use do.
I've demonstrated, multiple times, dropping an LTO tape from waist height, kicking it across the floor so that it bounces of the wall, inserting it into a drive.... and reading data. Do that with a HD in a USB caddy. Modern tape, unless you crush the enclosure, is just this side of impervious. But if you want to have 50+ USB chassis with hard drives to cycle your backup on then by all means. If you believe you will have less failures then with tape I can't help but think your nuts. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
