Trivial question - No Flames please
I think I have been looking in all the wrong places. What size is a 112 Meter 8mm tape with and without compression? I just inherited a butt-load of them and decided to use them for daily incrementals (nothing above 500 MB a day) Thanks! Ross
Re: Trivial question - No Flames please
On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 08:24:27PM -0700, Potts, Ross A. wrote: I think I have been looking in all the wrong places. What size is a 112 Meter 8mm tape with and without compression? I just inherited a butt-load of them and decided to use them for daily incrementals (nothing above 500 MB a day) Subject: Re: Trivial question - No Flames please Small one. Google is a wonderful thing. I searched on 112m 8mm tape Got an answer; top hits. Faster than you possibly could here. In reality I got two answers, 2.5/5.0 GB and 5.0/10.0 GB. Which tells me your question was incomplete as the same length and width tape can be used in drives with different specifications. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: Trivial question - No Flames please
Some manufacturers advertise them as 10GB, but they are really 5GB native capacity. The 160m 8mm tapes are 7GB native. Compression can make your data anywhere from somewhat larger to considerably smaller, depending on what it is. Repetitive text files like web logs can compress amazingly well, already compressed files like most image, music, and video files, and .Z and .gz files, will get a little bigger if you try to compress them again. Frank (sorry if this gets posted twice, my mail client freaked and I don't know if it went out before or not) --On Sunday, September 01, 2002 20:24:27 -0700 Potts, Ross A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I have been looking in all the wrong places. What size is a 112 Meter 8mm tape with and without compression? I just inherited a butt-load of them and decided to use them for daily incrementals (nothing above 500 MB a day) Thanks! Ross -- Frank Smith[EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
Re: Trivial question - No Flames please
On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Potts, Ross A. wrote: I think I have been looking in all the wrong places. What size is a 112 Meter 8mm tape with and without compression? I just inherited a butt-load of them and decided to use them for daily incrementals (nothing above 500 MB a day) Which 8mm format? AIT? Exabyte? More information is needed. Also, I'm willing to bet quite a bit that this is a fairly easy piece of information to locate yourself on Google. -- Brandon D. Valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Geek, Center for Structural Biology This isn't rocket science -- but it _is_ computer science. - Terry Lambert on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
