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Quote:>I have a few 525 Meg *COMPRESSED* Tandberg tape drives ...

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So why can't you say that you have a few 250 Mb tape drives? I assure you that
MOST people in this newgroup know what data compression can do; and those few
who don't maybe misled by your message and THINK they are actually buying a
525 Mb drive (one that uses DC6525 cartridges). I am sure that is not the
purpose behind the phrasing of your message here, of course.

Viktor

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: >I have a few 525 Meg *COMPRESSED* Tandberg tape drives ...

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: So why can't you say that you have a few 250 Mb tape drives? I assure you that
: MOST people in this newgroup know what data compression can do; and those few
: who don't maybe misled by your message and THINK they are actually buying a
: 525 Mb drive (one that uses DC6525 cartridges). I am sure that is not the
: purpose behind the phrasing of your message here, of course.

: Viktor

Mot vendors word their ads in just the same way. The Colorado Jumbo Systems
Jumbo 250 is 250mb when compressed.

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Quote:>Mot vendors word their ads in just the same way. The Colorado Jumbo Systems
>Jumbo 250 is 250mb when compressed.

1: As someone mentioned it here answering a different question, while this
has been common practice with low-end (floppy controller, parallel port) tape
drives, it has not caught on with higher end (QIC-150, QIC-525) streamers.

2: This is a deplorable practice; the mere fact that others do it is no
excuse.

Viktor

Oh no, what about the HP 8GB DAT drives. These are really just *2GB* drives
so with normal data 4GB would be good going, and 8GB only if you back up
the contents of /dev/zero. I'm surprised tape streamers haven't gone like
hardisk and started using metric MB, as in 1E6 bytes or 1024E3 bytes.

Jon.