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  • Subject: RE: Poor IFS performance?
  • From: "Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:34:17 -0800

At 08:48 AM 02/28/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>Patrick, Al
>  From the literature I have, it looks like the 2.4GB per 3490E cartridge
>assumes a 3:1 compression ratio (when "compression" is on). If there is no
>compression, 800MB per cartridge is claimed.


Agreed

>   If the objects in the IFS do not compress well, 4 cartridges would have
>somewhere between 3.2GB  and  9.6GB depending on the actual compression
>results for the data being saved.

I do not agree.  Sounds like a crock to me.

Al


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