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Hello Jasen - 

CA>> I think the two keywords for tar to tape are SLOW and
CA>> UNRELIABLE. 

JB> if it's with second-hand hardware that's probably true. 

The Colorado Jumbo was new at the time. I was the consultant
that ordered, installed, and set it up at work. ;-) 

Granted, a 'Jumbo' is the low end of tape drives (or was). 

JB> if you have a lot of data. (like, say, a genome) 

Genome as in DNA research? 

JB> tape backup is cheap, 

Per megabyte tape is not cheap, check again. 

JB> and rugged... 

Tape becomes brittle, the binder fails allowing the oxide to
fall off the tape, it stretches, and it breaks. Rugged? 

JB> a tape can withstand dust better than a removable disk, 

??? What gives you that impression? 

JB> and stratic electicty better than a removable drive 

Static electricity isn't a huge problem in my universe. 

JB> and takes up less space 

Depends on the tape format. Some are quite large. 

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