On maandag, september 2, 2002, at 01:49 , Daniel Sparrman wrote:

Hi Eliza

As I understand it, each "tape-HBA" has 3 3590E FC connnected to it. The
two 21G database disks, are each connected to it's own HBA?

According to spec sheets, the 3590E FC could handle speed up to 100MB/s
with 3:1 compression. This means that with 3 drives, you could have up
to
300MB/s. However, the HBA will only theoretically handle 125MB/s, or
250MB/s with 2Gb FC.

Fortunately, an 3590E will do only about 16MB/s or so, so 3 drives will
not fill up a FC link.... 3:1 compression is very rare in my experience,
2:1 or less is far more likely...


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