Posted by Martin Heffels on 07/17/07 15:38

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:29:56 GMT, Jan Panteltje
<pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote:

>You are right about that.
>But here I was referring to magnetic recording in general.

Yes, hence my reference back to the original subject. As a frequent
poster, you know some of us are quite specific in what we are talking
about :-) But you are right in what you wrote of course!

>The hurdle the harddisk manufacturers - and probably tape makers -
>face is how to get more bits per square inch.

Question is: do we want that? For the consumer-market i would say,
yes, but I doubt the professional market would want that. Production
insurance companies for instance, don't like hard-disk masters, so
demand you make backups on LTO3-tapes, because it has proven to be
more reliable (and have better error correction).

-m-

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