>> On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:59:22 PST, Sam Sheppard <SHS AT SDDPC.SANNET DOT GOV> 
>> said:

> running at about 600MB/hour. I'm not real familiar with the
> performance characteristics of the Netapp box, but am assured by the
> Unix/Netapp guys that it's a great performer (it's FC-connected).

> This seems way slow to me and I haven't seen this poor performance
> doing the same kind of operation on my ESS. Anyone have any
> experience with the TSM database on one of these devices? I know the
> original network-attached storage had write performance problems,
> but this seems ridiculous.

Do you really mean 600M/hr?  i.e. not say 600M/min?

I'd expect that any disk platform you're moving -to- these days would
have a random-access write speed >30M/s, serial ~80-100.


- Allen S. Rout