Tape drive compression

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Weaksauce
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I saw most tape drive advertise compression 2:1 . What is the actual yield in the real world for binary files such as avi or zip?
 
1:1 for data already compressed. Actually you might get some slight compression out of zip files depending on how the zip files are compressed. However that is very very little extra compression.
 
Yep as he said, avi's and zips are already compressed, so none.

On average my DLT drive at work (40/80GB) gets almost 60GB of mixed data before filling up. But this is mostly word files and the like.

Next week I am upgrading to AIT. (yay)

==>Lazn
 
rats...
How reliable are their disk in long term? I mean casette I have will not last longer than 2 yrs.

This make me drool
VERBATIM LTO 2 Ultrium 200/400GB
 
DLTs if stored properly are very reliable. Even if not still pretty good.
 
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