On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:12 AM, Dietz Pröpper <dietz AT rotfl.franken DOT de> 
wrote:
> John Drescher:
>> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Mike Hanby <mhanby AT uab DOT edu> wrote:
>> > Howdy,
>> >
>> > I'm curious whether others with the PV-124T with LTO4 are using
>> > hardware or software compression.
>> >
>> > I am testing a new Bacula deployment with one of these autoloaders /
>> > drives and haven't found a good suggestion as to which type of
>> > compression to go with.
>>
>> Never use software compression on an LTO drive. Hardware compression
>> much faster.
>
> I get around 100mb/s with gzip -1 ;-).
>
That is still slower than a LTO4 drive. It would also be a low
compression rate. Also I would bet if you had client machines not all
of them could do 100MB/s..

John

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