Except it's NOT 30 Gb to 50 Gb, but rather 15 Gb to 25 Gb -- read the fine print. Tape drive manufacturers always use a 2:1 assumed compression and don't tell you that until you dig into your ads.
This is bad because a lot of what I dump to tape (JPEGs, MP3s, ZIP files, MPEGs, etc.) is mostly uncompressable.
If your talking CAD drawings, word processor or text docs, then it's more like 10:1 compression.
We average about 1.2:1 compression on PCs and the servers at the office.
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Except it's NOT 30 Gb to 50 Gb, but rather 15 Gb to 25 Gb -- read the fine print. Tape drive manufacturers always use a 2:1 assumed compression and don't tell you that until you dig into your ads.
This is bad because a lot of what I dump to tape (JPEGs, MP3s, ZIP files, MPEGs, etc.) is mostly uncompressable.
If your talking CAD drawings, word processor or text docs, then it's more like 10:1 compression.
We average about 1.2:1 compression on PCs and the servers at the office.