PAR vs MAX
>> What I would wish for is to just let the faster IDE drives allow for lower
compression ratios. <<
I've thought about this too, and it seems to me that if throughputs of 15 Mb
per second are possible, this should enable lossless compression as that's only
2 to 1 roughly. I think you can go to 4 to 1 before there's some minutely
discernable loss. So it seems to me that you should be able to get lossless
compression and still have a decent amount of hard disk space. If it comes to a
trade off I would rather have the higher quality as well.
-JE