Re: Seagate 3200 Tape Drive: Buyer BEWARE!!!!

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From: Just a Guy
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 00:00

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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.

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. 
>
>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

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From: TjgmaisonT@magicnet.net (Just a Guy)
Subject: Re: Seagate 3200 Tape Drive: Buyer BEWARE!!!!
Date: 1997/11/12
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