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Just a Guy wrote in message <346929b8.46128996@news.magicnet.net>...
>You get more compression because so much of your hard disk is actually
>slack.  Unused space because the actual file is much smaller than the
>space allocated.  Depending on how you have the drive partitioned this
>can be quite a bit.


A better analogy is similar to doing a PKZIP to the files before they are
stored.  Just like in PKZIP, certain files compress better than others.

>no.name@spammers.go.away (Patrick Dunford) wrote:
>>On 6 Nov 1997 12:20:18 GMT, snakeman@turtle.edeneast.com (RHS Linux
>>User) wrote:
>>>Be very careful in an attempt to purchase a SEAGATE 3200 3.2 Gig capacity
>>>tape drive. First of all the 'true' capacity is 1.6 gig uncompressed. And
>>>the drive is essentially useless without a high speed controller card.

Not totally true.  Your motherboard must be able to support at least a 1
mb/sec rate.  Many name brand true pentium boards support this.  Some
inexpensive true pentium boards do not.  (I have one with a Cyrix 6x86-P166
in it.  However, I paid only $250 for both six months ago.  Cost of
frugalty.)  Instead, they have a chipset support a 500kb/sec rate (like
mine).  If it doesn't, you need the controller card.  My Dell Pentium 5166
at work does fine with the Seagate 3.2gb backup unit on the floppy
controller.

The same is true for all tape drives over 1gb on the floppy controller, they
all require the faster transfer rate.

>>This is true of all capacities of backup drives but often in practice
>>you can get even more compression than 2x. As was my experince with a
>>Ditto 800MB drive.
>Gary Cochran

Depends on the types of files you are trying to back up.  I select the
"stack high" option, with maximum compression.  With a fast enough
processor, it speeds the throughput to the tape also.