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Article #19847Re: is CMS trakker 250mb tape backup for real
From: Iskandar Taib
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:55
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:55
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In article <rreiner.725841329@yorku.ca> rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca (Richard Reiner) writes: >This appears to have become standard practice in the PC tape drive >industry. IOMega sells a series of "250" drives that use DC2120 -- i.e. >120MB -- tapes, with a bundled copy of Central Point Backup doing the >compression. Irwin and CMS label their stuff the same way. Theres a good reason for it too, actually. The big bottleneck in tape backup is the actual writing to the tape. The fewer bits you can write to the tape the faster your job gets done. So not only does the tape hold more, the transfer rate goes up quite a bit. We bought a Maynard 4mm DAT drive just before the new compression drives came out *sigh*... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iskandar Taib | The only thing worse than Peach ala Internet: NTAIB@SILVER.UCS.INDIANA.EDU | Frog is Frog ala Peach Bitnet: NTAIB@IUBACS !
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!silver.ucs.indiana.edu!ntaib From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) Subject: Re: is CMS trakker 250mb tape backup for real Message-ID: <C0p8Bw.KLv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: silver.ucs.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University References: <8907@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com> <rreiner.725841329@yorku.ca> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:55:08 GMT Lines: 23