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

2003-04-08 14:25:51
Subject: Re: Has anyone ever compressed real data that much???
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
To: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>, Toralf Lund <toralf AT procaptura DOT com>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:08:20 -0400
On Tue April 8 2003 10:21, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>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.  :)

Chuckle...  I'd say that pretty much describes it.

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