Kent Wallace asked:
>How much will a DLT8000 store? before it requires a second tape.  Is it
>data dependant?

If using a DLT-IV media the DLT8000 writes approximately 40GB per tape
(native).  However,  the tape drive normally does hardware compression
(and/or you may use software compression) and the quoted "normal"
compression ratio of 2:1 yields 80GB per tape. Of course, the
compressibility of your data may vary widely.  Many kinds of data are
already compressed and/or encrypted which effectively prevents additional
compression, but I've also seen production systems achieve 10:1
compression.  Because of the wide variance of compressibility of data I
prefer to consider primarily the native capacity of disc and tape drives
and when comparing them.

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