Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!ariel.unm.edu!unmvax!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: Exabyte Data Compression Devices Message-ID: Date: 19 Feb 91 10:10:36 GMT References: <4501@syma.sussex.ac.uk> Lines: 24 >In article <4501@syma.sussex.ac.uk> lezo@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Lez Oxley) writes: > >Data Compression Devices are now available for 8mm, 4mm and .5 inch SCSI >Tape Drives to enhance data transfer rates and to increase tape capacity >up to 4 times. Typically, it is claimed that an Exabyte cartridge could >now hold up to 6.6 gigabytes of data. > >Digidata market a model 4000 (tm) data compressor and Peripheral Vision >Corporation market a 4Sight (tm) Data Compression module. There are >other products on the market as well. [Bunches 'O Questions] I have one more question to add: How do these products perform when dumping already compressed data to disk? I already keep stuff I don't need very often compressed. Are these boards "smart" enough to keep from expanding the data? -- ben@epmooch.UUCP ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu {chinet,uokmax}!servalan!epmooch!ben (Ben Mesander) War in gulf: newpath 288 396 216 0 360 arc 288 612 moveto 288 180 lineto 288 396 moveto 136 244 lineto 288 396 moveto 440 244 lineto 36 setlinewidth stroke showpage