[clug] LTO-4 drive, turn on compression?

Chris Smart mail at christophersmart.com
Tue Aug 11 20:14:41 MDT 2009


2009/8/12 Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net>:
>
> Nah, most tape drives have an LZO compressor built-in, operating on small
> blocks, and a canned test that favours the vendor to produce those numbers.
>
> The second figure is a lie ^W^W marketing. ;)

I'm a sucker for good marketing :-)

-c


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