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From: pavlov@canisius.UUCP (Greg Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: Exabyte Data Compression Devices
Keywords: Exabyte Compression
Message-ID: <3232@canisius.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 91 05:10:56 GMT
References: <4501@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
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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.
>
  Boy, this is very tempting.  But I am scared by the thought that, 5 years
  from now, I'll be asked to restore some crucial data from an old cartridge
  tape, my compression gizmo will have died and I couldn't get it fixed/rep-
  laced, and the cartridge will thus be useless.

  pavlov@stewart.fstrf.org


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