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Article #3821How much can a TLZ06 4mm Dat hold
From: Prof. Ron Dembo
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:51
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:51
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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
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utcsri!csri.toronto.edu!dembo Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec 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 Lines: 14