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To: T Bowl who wrote (2265)	1/14/1998 11:25:00 AM
From: Chuck Bleakney	Respond to of 9256

>> Where do you think DTR will go to this year? I've heard estimates of 300Mb/s end of 98. Is that reasonable? Or will it be faster? << I'm unfamliar with the meaning of DTR. >> BTW, the reason for my question is the fact that HTCH says TSA is good to 600Mb/s while HIF is only good to 400Mb/s. S/N ratios or something... << Again am unfamiliar with meaning of the terms TSA and HIF. I could make guesses... DTR - Digital Tape Recording TSA - Tape Storage Array HIF - ??? Truth is I'm not all that up on the current Tape Drive Technology, I've been out of that design loop for about 15 years... I was in it during the days of "Big Iron" and vacuum tensioning... The last density I worked on was 6250 BPI !!! a long time ago... Now if this is related to disk drives instead of tapes, well I'm a bit more informed... but I'm still not an engineer. Chuck