Posted by Martin Heffels on 07/11/06 19:02

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:22:39 -0700, "Richard Crowley"
<richard.7.crowley@intel.com> wrote:

>"Steve King" wrote ...
>
>> Oh, and is computer tape as used in backing up the most valuable data on
>> the planet different from DV tape? Or, are we really interested any more?
>> ;-)
>
>The physical tape may be exactly the same. But, how the data is
>handled on the tape (and how much raw capacity is devoted to
>ECC) is different depending on the application (hard data vs.
>audio/video data).

Maybe y'all have heard about this project, maybe not. A few years ago there
was somebody who came up with the idea to use mini-DV as back-up medium for
computer-data, because of the transfer-speed. After research they realiseed
that for computer-data the bit-error-rate was too high on mini-DV tape, to
make safe back-ups. With an enormous amount of error-correction data added,
it was to do, but then the extra data overhead didn't really make it worth
anymore to making a back-up on a slower medium.

cheers

-martin-
--
"If he can he'll smile 'cos he's a Royal Crocodile."

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