Andrea Conti wrote:
>> That "400G with compression" is just an average. There's no guarantee
>> that you'll get 2x compression. Personally, I find it false advertising,
>> but nobody's listening to me.
>>
>
> 2x compression is indeed unrealistic most of the time.
>
>
I think it was HP DDS
> That "400G with compression" is just an average. There's no guarantee
> that you'll get 2x compression. Personally, I find it false advertising,
> but nobody's listening to me.
2x compression is indeed unrealistic most of the time.
On a different note, some time ago I found myself wondering h
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Bill Moran wrote:
> That "400G with compression" is just an average. There's no guarantee
> that you'll get 2x compression. Personally, I find it false advertising,
> but nobody's listening to me.
I tend to agree, especially now some makers are advertising based on 3:1
back
Oh ok, well that makes sense. I'm not sure how much data is already
compressed. But I understand now.
Thanks,
Jason
John Drescher wrote:
> On 3/2/07, Jason King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I have an LTO2 drive with tapes that hold 200g native and 400g with
>> hardware compression. I have the
In response to Jason King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I have an LTO2 drive with tapes that hold 200g native and 400g with
> hardware compression. I have the hardware compression turned on on my
> tape drive. I know because I went and manually made sure using the tape
> tools that come with FreeBSD (
On 3/2/07, Jason King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have an LTO2 drive with tapes that hold 200g native and 400g with
> hardware compression. I have the hardware compression turned on on my
> tape drive. I know because I went and manually made sure using the tape
> tools that come with FreeBSD (Th
I have an LTO2 drive with tapes that hold 200g native and 400g with
hardware compression. I have the hardware compression turned on on my
tape drive. I know because I went and manually made sure using the tape
tools that come with FreeBSD (The os the storage daemon is running on).
Last night my
