4
2010
A few words about hardware compression in a backup with tape drives.
Most present tape drives include a function called hardware compression. This makes available data compression to the magnetic tape by a drive. In many cases this feature may prove very useful. The hardware compression is much faster than a software compression because as opposed to the software compression it does not use a computer processor which draws from resources. Also it is transparent to the operating system and data is compressed “on the fly”. Usually [...]
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