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Overland Reo 9100 VTL
- Thread starter gulfdiver
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RMGBELGIUM
MIS
I have had experience with other VTL's that use compression.You win space, but to keep your drives in streaming mode it sometimes becomes hard.For example , you have an LTO4 drive which requires 40 Mb/sec datafeed to keep in streaming mode.With Oracle or other databases, you can get really good compression ( 5:1 ) and higher,which will mean that you need a throughput of 200 Mb/sec single stream to keep your LTO going.If you do not get that,the drive will stop/start/stop/start ... which kills your tapedrive in the end.
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RMGBELGIUM
MIS
The above was related to exporting to physical tape,so if you're not going to do that, you're fine 
Then you have to calculate a bit how much the space you gain costs vs the 10k for the compression.Some data compresses well,some nearly not,so it depends a little on your data if you would benefit.
Then you have to calculate a bit how much the space you gain costs vs the 10k for the compression.Some data compresses well,some nearly not,so it depends a little on your data if you would benefit.- Status