[Gllug] Tape backup

[Gordon Joly]

At 14:32 +0000 2002-02-27, David Damerell wrote:
>On Wednesday, 27 Feb 2002, Gordon Joly wrote:
>>At 14:12 +0000 2002-02-27, David Damerell wrote:
>>>On Wednesday, 27 Feb 2002, Dylan Brewis wrote:
>>>>On Wednesday 27 February 2002 11:52, David Damerell wrote:
>>>>>DAT drives are helical scan, and so probably fail the 'reliable' 
>>>>>criterion.
>>>>Why is that, exactly?
>>>Helican scan is a complicated mechanical kludge, which is why helical
>>>scan drives eat tapes more regularly [1].
>>Helican scan; you mean like VHS has?
>
>Typos aside, I do mean like VHS has; and, indeed, home VCRs do eat
>tapes more often than one would like in a reliable backup
>solution - and the mechanism in a DAT drive is much smaller and
>operating at much higher speeds.
>
>--
>David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?


VHS = Vertical Helical Scan

Gordo

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