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From: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Doubling Tape Capacity: Beware!
Message-ID: <418@demott.COM>
Date: 21 Jul 90 01:31:07 GMT
References: <1990Jul20.193412.18146@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Reply-To: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Organization: DeMott Electronics Co., Van Nuys CA
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In article <1990Jul20.193412.18146@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> dwells@fits.acc.Virginia.EDU (Don Wells) writes:
>In article <413@demott.COM> kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) writes:
>>
>>    Be careful about the "doubled" tape capacity.  One Exabyte OEM
>>mentioned this to me and explained that it was achieved by compressing
>>the data before it was being stored.  
>
>I suspect that there is some confusion going on here.
>Exabyte 5_GB option is a real doubling.
>
>>Since what we put on tape is
>>already compressed, we won't see any such gain.
>
>If you are right that the Exabyte 5_GB option is simply compression,
>then there will be no gain on data that is already compressed. 
>

    Let me be quick to point out that this is what I was told by a
marketing/ sales person from the OEM, and not to be considered
authoratative.  I only meant that people should be aware of what was
going on, not to just assume that they're getting what they think
they're getting. 

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