Marcus wrote:
> Rather then fight it, is there a problem with me
> leaving data compression on? I wanted to avoid that
> since I thought it would slow the drive down (my data
> isn't very compressable). But the drive seems to
> prefer (or provoke) running compressed. My high
> priority is to prolong head life.
My experience is that there generally appears to be no speed penalty
with leaving hardware compression turned on, and it can actually
increase throughput, since the limiting factor is usually the physical
transport rather than the drive's interface. Enabling software
compression, on the other hand, can be very slow.
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