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On 18.03.2010 10:31, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> 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.

Kind of like /dev/null. And about as useful in a restore situation.

//Svein

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