My backup software also supports compression. Can SafeCapacity speedup my backup performance in this case?
Yes. SafeCapacity will speed up backup even when software or hardware compression is enabled during backup. The reason is simple. Since files are pre-compressed, the disk I/O performance will be greatly improved. One of the most time-consuming tasks for the backup software is to read data from disk into memory. The actual compression time is relatively insignificant, since CPU speed is much faster than disk. For example, to backup 10 GB, backup software must read in 10 GB from disk. Let’s say that SafeCapacity compresses those 10GB down to 2 GB, then the backup software can read those data into memory 5 times faster!
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