Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> Anyhow, if you have enough CPU power, I found that software compression
> (using gzip) does better job than hardware compression in the drive.

Interesting -- this is the reverse of my experience.  I've found
hardware compression to give me comparable data compression and much
faster actual throughput, with much lower host system CPU load.  (And
the host system is an AthlonXP 1700+, so it's no slouch.)

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