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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (2949)	10/15/1998 7:44:00 PM
From: Dan Spangenberg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Don't really know the specific technical differences, other than DAT tapes are an older, slower, lower capacity, less robust tape format. Several years ago we backed up to 8mm DAT Tapes. The capacity was pretty limited, considering the massive size of apps and data today. I believe we only got a couple of gigs per tape. I do know we had ALOT of trouble with restores. We graduated up to DLT tape format and Exabyte's proprietary format to have more capacity, speed and reliability. One of the latest and greatest tape formats is now made by Sony and is called AIT. We are using one in a 12 tape autoloader and get amazing capacity and speed. 330 megabyte per minute backups and 40 gig per tape! The drives are available as stand alones and cost just a bit under $3000 I believe. Kind of expensive, but very reliable, no cleaning the heads to speak of either and Oh so quick!. This site talks a bit about a couple of the new technologies aittape.com Dan