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How much can a TLZ06 4mm Dat hold

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From: Prof. Ron Dembo
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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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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