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- From: rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca (Richard Reiner)
- Subject: Re: is CMS trakker 250mb tape backup for real
- Message-ID: <rreiner.725841329@yorku.ca>
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- Organization: York University
- References: <8907@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:35:29 GMT
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- hwrvo@kato.lahabra.chevron.com (W.R. Volz) writes:
-
- >Someone mentioned that the Colorado 250 mb tape backup
- >was really a 125mb tape system with compression software
- >and CMS hoped to get 2:1 compression. Is this for real??
- >If so, why can't I buy a CMS 125mb drive and use Norton
- >Backup to get the same thing.
-
- Probably because the 125 is really a 60MB drive with data compression
- software...
-
- This appears to have become standard practice in the PC tape drive
- industry. IOMega sells a series of "250" drives that use DC2120 -- i.e.
- 120MB -- tapes, with a bundled copy of Central Point Backup doing the
- compression. Irwin and CMS label their stuff the same way.
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- Richard Reiner..............rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca..............416-538-3947
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