Ok… I have turned off the hardware compression with Veeam data up to now.
We have turned on the Veeam compression for all backups, so I think it's quite useless to turn on even if the algorithm recognizes compressed data….
Ok… I have turned off the hardware compression with Veeam data up to now.
We have turned on the Veeam compression for all backups, so I think it's quite useless to turn on even if the algorithm recognizes compressed data….
same as Joe, what about the performance i ifcompression is enabled on hardware for a little gain of space?
Performance should not be a big difference. The hardware compression - at least with the IBM drives - is really good…
I have not that much experience with drives from HP and others….
We leave the hardware compression on and not turn on Veeam compression. Not much savings really.
I have pretty decent servers and leave hardware compression off on my LTO8’s as Veeam already compresses it. Perhaps I’ll do a side by side comparison to see what the differences are between Veeam only, Hardware only, and both.
I have pretty decent servers and leave hardware compression off on my LTO8’s as Veeam already compresses it. Perhaps I’ll do a side by side comparison to see what the differences are between Veeam only, Hardware only, and both.
I will do a test with hardware compression on and Veeam compression off next month, too. 
It's just interesting to compare these numbers.
