[oak perl] Tape backup device for sale...

[David Alban]

On 7/15/06, Jon Seidel, CMC <jseidel at edpci.com> wrote:
> These drives (this one is  an external model, SCSI, 33/66Gig) are still available new on the Exabyte site,  part # 115.00202 on page http://exabyte.com/products/products/get_products.cfm?prod_id=303,  and still selling for full retail on the VAR/reseller sites.

Having a lowly 8505 drive at home, I was curious as to what the media
was for your drive, so I followed the link above and found:

  http://exabyte.com/products/tape/the_media.cfm

On that page I found the following:

    *  We boiled it

    * We froze it

    * We dropped it

    * We dunked it in hot coffee

  Boiled!  Frozen!  Dropped!  Dunked in Coffee!
  Read about how VXA tape restored 100% of the data every time!

Now *that's* marketing.  :-D

P.S.  I'm sure I wouldn't get similar results with 8mm tapes...

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