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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: is CMS trakker 250mb tape backup for real
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:55:08 GMT
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- In article <rreiner.725841329@yorku.ca> rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca (Richard Reiner) writes:
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- >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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- Theres a good reason for it too, actually. The big bottleneck
- in tape backup is the actual writing to the tape. The fewer bits
- you can write to the tape the faster your job gets done. So not
- only does the tape hold more, the transfer rate goes up quite a
- bit.
-
- We bought a Maynard 4mm DAT drive just before the new compression
- drives came out *sigh*...
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