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- From: dembo@csri.toronto.edu (Prof. Ron Dembo)
- Subject: How much can a TLZ06 4mm Dat hold
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.145111.2634@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Summary: What gets compressed with a tlz06
- Keywords: tlz06
- Date: 19 Nov 92 19:51:11 GMT
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- We recently purchased was what billed as a '4 gig data drive'. In an effort
- to start using it for our backups I was reading the documentation and
- found in small print the statement that the capacity was 2 gig without
- compression, and 4 with. I have not been able to get a clear answer on what
- this 'compression' entails. Is it a software compression? Such that a
- drive stores 2 gig but the data is being compressed in hardware so that about
- 4 gig can be stored if it is easily compressable ? or is it an actual physical
- compression similar to high versus low density.
-
- Out backup scheme used to run on a 2.2 Gig exabyte. Having long since run out
- of space we already compress our dumps using compress and dd. Can this TLZ06
- hold 4 gig of this pre-compressed data.
-
- Thanks in advance
-