It depends.
If your nodes are not processor constrained - use compression.
If network is faster than nodes can pipe through - do not compress.
If you cannot afford big disk pools, do not have SAN, etc. - compression
might help.
So you have to decide. Some nodes might use it some other might not.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant



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Do you guys use client compression, hardware compression, or both? Were
trying to decide if it's worth turning compression on at the client level.
I'd think sending a compressed file to a tape drive with hardware
compression would make the file grow, but I don't have a way of confirming
that...

Wayne Spearman
Information Technology - Software Systems Engineer
Novant Health - Central Services
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