On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Jim Lane wrote:
> I recently had a contractor/consultant onsite to review my Networker
> setup. among other things he insisted that using hardware compression on
> a tape library is a "bad thing". the closest thing to an explanation I
> ever heard was that it might cause data loss somehow and that Legato
> wouldn't help me if it did. since contractors have a better relationship
> with management than I do he just called STK onsite and had them turn
> compression off on my 9710. I'm wondering if anybody out there has ever
> heard anything like this before? does anybody have any experience of the
> possible effects, on either reliability or performance, of tape hardware
> compression?

I have heard the exact opposite from a wide range of sources, including
when I attended Legato training and our hardware manufacturer's technical
consultants.

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