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Ultrium 215 Tapes Reads only Half the tape's size

 
Juan Manon
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‎03-07-2008 04:10 AM

‎03-07-2008 04:10 AM

Ultrium 215 Tapes Reads only Half the tape's size

Hey all!

I just recently purchased a set of HP LTO1 200GB tapes C7971A. but every time i place it on the tape it only reads 97GB. noted this is not a 100/200 tape is just straight 200gb. Im using Backup Exec 11d. Any thoughts as to why this may be happening?
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meloni
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‎03-08-2008 10:00 AM

‎03-08-2008 10:00 AM

Re: Ultrium 215 Tapes Reads only Half the tape's size

well LTO1 cartridge are natively max100GB capacity, and are quoted 100-200GB.
this indicate a phisical capacity or native capacity of 100 GB but assuming a compression ratio 1:2, you can fill up to 200 GB,
This compression ratio depend of the capability of your data,
If you have a backup application that disable the HW compression, also you will never put more than 100 GB on a LTO-1 cartridge
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