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Remember that tape drives usually report compressed capacity, and your MP3s are already compressed. For instance, if they say the tape drive will hold 10 gigs, they probably mean that the tape actually has 5 gigs of space.

I have found that with compression on, my 35/70Gb DLT drive stores about 31Gb of MP3s per tape and with compression off, it stores 35Gb. The compression must have some sort of overhead which, in the case of MP3s, increases the file size. Backing up of already compressed files is noticably slower if drive compression is enabled too.

Nicholas.


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