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- From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony A. Datri)
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- Subject: Re: Dumping a Gigabyte
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 23:21:04 GMT
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- >We've been testing an HP 35480A SCSI DAT drive recently. This drive uses
- >an enhanced DAT format called Digital Data Storage (DDS).
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- As I understand it, DDS is really just a structuring format for how the
- blocks/error counts/etc go onto the tape. I believe that Sony (?) has/had
- a competing format that never had much success.
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- >(for a 90m tape)
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- >Capacity: 8 Gigabytes (with compression)
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- That's 4x -- I'll bet it's a "peak" capacity.
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