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Switch Double Buffering On/Off

  If your machine is slow or heavily loaded or if your tape drive is too fast, it will start and stop the tape every now and then. This is unhealthy for both, the tape and the drive. To avoid repeated starts and stops of the drive, you can use double-buffering. By collecting a large buffer of data and writing it at once, you reduce the number of starts and stops.    

This is extremely useful when using compression or encryption because these operations reduce data throughput. However, you will see how your tape drive performs without double-buffering and then you can decide whether to use it or not.

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