[ale] Recommendation for off-line storage?

[Greg Freemyer]

On 5/10/06, Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com> wrote:
> For really repetitive data like traffic data for cell phone (airsage.com),
> compression should do wonder, if CPU cycles are not at premium.

This class of tape drive does compression in the drive hardware, so no
CPU cycles required.

Also, the compression algorythm is defined in the LTO standard, so you
can write data on any brand of drive and read it on any other brand of
drive.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century