On Feb 18, 2008 1:01 PM, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Way back when I had some tape drives. At that time Linux could not > provide compression on tape drives. Especially if you where trying to > write across multiple tapes. > > Is this still true? > > So if I'm looking at a tape drive that says it is an 80/204GB type, I > should use 80GB for my calculations? > Linux will provide compression if the hardware supports it. It's just that the 204 GB number is a highly optimistic number that one will rarely see in real life. 1.5:1 is more realistic for my data so the drive for me would be a 120GB drive...
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