HP StorageWorks Ultrium Full-Height SCSI Tape Drives User Guide (EH853-90905, August 2007)

will always limit the speed at which the drive can write/read data. You will achieve no more than
native rates with uncompressible data.
Examples of files that c ompress well are plain text files, spreadsheets; those that compress poorly are
those that are either compressed as part of their format (s uch as, JPEG photographic files) or stored as
compr essed (such as, .ZIP files or .gz/.Z files on Unix platforms).
Ultrium full-height SCSI Tape D rives
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