On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 at 10:49am, tobias.bluhm AT philips DOT com wrote

> I'm slightly baffled at the Tape Time though - it seems to have gone down. 
> I expected it to remain about the same, half the data at half the tape 
> write speed.

Your tape write speed would only get cut in half when going to software 
compression if the hardware compression had been getting 2:1, which it 
almost never does.  And gzip is better than just about any hardware 
compressor, so the actual size of the data on tape is more than likely 
smaller with software compression.  Thus the reduced tape time.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University