Svein Skogen <sv...@stillbilde.net> wrote:

> Please, don't compare proper backup drives to that rotating head
> non-standard catastrophy... DDS was (in)famous for being a delayed-fuse
> tape-shredder.

DDS was a WOM (write only memory) type device. It did not report write errors
and it had many read errors.

Jörg

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