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From: de5@ornl.gov (Dave Sill)
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Subject: Re: 8mm or 4mm?
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.120606.14138@cs.utk.edu>
Date: 26 Jun 91 12:06:06 GMT
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In article <1991Jun25.181021.7508@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>, brack@agrajag.yorku.ca (Tony Brack) writes:
>
>8mm drives have capacities of 2.3 or 5 GB depending on whether or not
>data compression is on, whereas DAT capacity is 1.2 & 2.0 GB respectively.

Are you *sure* the EXB-8500 does compression?  I thought it was just a
higher density recording.  If it does use compression, then one would
expect the capacity to be significantly less than 5 GB when storing
previously compressed files, but none of the literature I've seen has
said anything about the capacity being variable.  Anyone have a
definitive answer?

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