>In article <199711221325.OAA01232@gytha.home.net>,

>[I'll take a second attempt for an answer.]
>
>These devices are IMHO no good choice. They are slow, unreliable and not
>durable. And the medias are much more expensive like e.g. DAT or Exabyte
>tapes.

I agree with the parts that they are slow and that the media are expensive.
Could you substantiate the other two claims? If you are right about those I'll
buy a DAT drive :-)

Paul

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