On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 18:36:13 GMT, SpamTrapSeeSig
wrote:

5. Speed: tapes are up to 3x faster than typical disks.

That depends entirely upon the tape drive. Some drives could be 10x
slower than disk.

SCSI tapes are likely to be faster than other methods, but just
getting any old tape drive does not equate to "faster".

PoP