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Re: Has anyone ever compressed real data that much???

2003-04-08 11:43:33
Subject: Re: Has anyone ever compressed real data that much???
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
To: Toralf Lund <toralf AT procaptura DOT com>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 10:21:47 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 8 Apr 2003 at 2:55pm, Toralf Lund wrote

> I've been looking for a new drive or autoloader, and I notice that some 
> vendors now assume a hardware compression ratio of 2.6:1 in their 
> advertising material. Which leads me to the question in the subject; has 

Ah, you mean Sony with AIT?  The consensus seems to be that their input 
for that test was /dev/zero.  :)

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University