Dell PowerVault LTO3-060 - Manual (Page 4)

application program in the host computer is compressing the data before it is sent to the storage device. Hardware
compression is much more efficient and works much faster than software compression.
The PowerVault LTO-2-024 tape drive uses SLDC hardware compression to compress data. This feature is enabled per
default but the user may turn off data compression through the application software.
Note: If the data is compressed by software in the host computer, and then sent to a device that does hardware
compression, the data have a tendency to expand instead of being compressed because the control data used on the
tape.
Be sure to turn the software data compression off if using the PowerVault LTO-2-024 - which has embedded
hardware compression.
Front Panel LEDs
Figure 2: Status indicators (LEDs) on the front panel
Table 1: Front-Panel LEDs
READY LED
(Green)
Activity LED
(Green)
CLEAN LED
(Amber)
FAULT LED
(Amber)
For complete information including failure conditions and FW loading see Front LED Indicators .