Fire Damaged Tapes

Fire leads to problems resulting from heat, and problems resulting from smoke. Apply enough heat to a tape and the temperature will rise above the curie point and all magnetic information will be lost and data recovery is no longer possible. Before this point is reached there are a number of other ways in which the tape will be damaged and recovery will be needed. With DAT, AIT and other cassette type cartridges the casing will become distorted by heat before that is much of an impact upon the tape media. With LTO and DLT the cases are less likely to be affected in this way.

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