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RE: tapetype question
2006-08-02 09:23:15
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 at 9:08am, McGraw, Robert P. wrote
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:jlb17 AT duke DOT edu]
Ah, the hardware manufacturers have brainwashed you well! ;) They'll be
so pleased.
[McGraw, Robert P.]
Not brainwashed but not knowing what amtapetype was trying to do. Maybe we
should talk about physical and logical tape. The physical tape can only hold
~200GB, the logical tape can hold X depending on the data and the
compression scheam. Kind of like Nup printing, 1 physical page can hold X
logical pages.
No offense intended. It's just that for most *real* data I've seen, the
2X compression quoted by the industry is a fairy tale (never mind the 2.6X
Sony quotes for AIT these days).
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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