Some manufacturers advertise them as 10GB, but they are really
5GB native capacity.  The 160m 8mm tapes are 7GB native.
   Compression can make your data anywhere from somewhat larger
to considerably smaller, depending on what it is.  Repetitive
text files like web logs can compress amazingly well, already
compressed files like most image, music, and video files, and
.Z and .gz files, will get a little bigger if you try to compress
them again.

Frank
(sorry if this gets posted twice, my mail client freaked and I
don't know if it went out before or not)

--On Sunday, September 01, 2002 20:24:27 -0700 "Potts, Ross A." <RPOTTS AT 
northropgrumman DOT com> wrote:

> I think I have been looking in all the wrong places.  What size is a 112
> Meter  8mm tape with and without compression?  I just inherited a butt-load
> of them and decided to use them for daily incrementals (nothing above 500 MB
> a day)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Ross



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