"Mike Rivers" wrote in message
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...any DAT that you buy will be second-hand.
These tend to not be maintained so you may have a couple of hundred
bucks worth of refurbishment before you can get full performance out
of it. That's a point against DAT.

A more important one is that for the past five years the only new DAT tapes
that have been of high enough quality to not light up my Sony 7030's error
lights like a Christmas tree have been made by Fuji. Now that DAT is no
longer a major computer backup format while remaining among the most
expensive, there is a serious question of reliable DAT tape stock remaining
available.

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