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I've never used tape drive hardware compression. It would not have done anything as the vast majority of data was large video assets. It was my understanding that using the built-in hardware compression was universal between devices.

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It's pretty much marketing gimmick at this point, to slap bigger capacity number in marketing

For LTO yes, for everything else - I haven't come across any guarantees of compatibility between vendors even for the same generation of tape.

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