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It takes advantage of shallow purchasing decisions. If all your competitors report 30 TB*, and you report 15 TB, you may have a better product, but what the pe
by tux3 3y ago
It takes advantage of shallow purchasing decisions.
If all your competitors report 30 TB*, and you report 15 TB, you may have a better product, but what the people with purchasing power want is bigger numbers, and you advertise a lower number
*with 3:1 compression
- osigurdson 3y agoIf so, why not state 100:1 compression on the canonical FF*N data set.
- tux3 3y agoBecause contrary to popular belief, people are only finitely foolish But in fact this did happen to some extent. LTO tapes used to advertise with 2:1 compression ratio. Then that became 2.5:1. And now IBM is doing 3:1 And that's not because we just discovered how to improve on Lempel-Ziv. The switch to 2.5:1 was around 2012. LZMA is 20th century tech, and people still use gzip today. Compression technology doesn't account for the advertising number inflation there.
- bombcar 3y agoBecause all the companies have to do it in lockstep (see "reach vs standout" recently in tape measures).