home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!att!dptg!ulysses!allegra!princeton!siemens!aad
- From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri)
- Subject: Re: Dumping a Gigabyte
- Message-ID: <C16G17.Dxx@siemens.com>
- Sender: news@siemens.com (NeTnEwS)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: lovecraft.siemens.com
- Organization: Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton (Plainsboro), NJ
- References: <1j55eiINNk3d@BSDI.COM> <id.DZQW._25@ferranti.com> <ericw.727296638@angelo> <EJH.93Jan18192837@khonshu.colorado.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 00:00:43 GMT
- Lines: 10
-
- >I believe their capacity is also lower. I've only seen them go up to a
- >gig per tape, whereas you can get 10 gig on an exabyte.
-
- Unless I've missed something, an Exabyte 8500 has a raw capacity of around 5G.
- 10G would be with compression, and you can get compression on DAT drives as
- well. A 60m DAT will get you ~1.6G; a 90m DAT ~2G.
-
- --
-
- ======================================================================8--<
-