On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:53:39AM -0400, MIchael Leone wrote:
> EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on 
> 03/27/2008 03:34:41 PM:
> 
> > Depends on your data.   File systems usually have a large volume of
> > already compressed files, or files that don't compress much (jpgs, mpg,
> > mp3, etc).  In our windows environments, we get about 300-400 on LTO-2
> > and 700-900 GB on LTO-3 tapes. 
> 
> You get 900GB on LTO-3? Isn't LTO-3 400G native, 800G compressed? 

It is if you assume that you get exactly 2:1 compression.  But as
mentioned above, the actual compression you get depends on the actual
data.

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