The big advantage of Fibre that I have found (at least in a Windows
environment) is that you don't have to reboot the server when you reboot the
Jukebox.  It will rediscover the drives after the Fibre channel tapes come
back up.

Brian 

-----Original Message-----
From: Porotikov, Vitaly [IT] [mailto:vitaly.porotikov AT NIKKOCITIGROUP DOT 
COM] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 12:04 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] LTO2 tape drives - fibre vs. scsi

I tested SCSI and Fiber connected tape drive and din't find any differnces
in backup speed. New SCSI adapters support 320MB translating rate. LTO2 has
20-25 Mb backup speed (as usual less). So IMHO no differences, only in cost.
Besides, the buttleneck in backup, IMHO, is network, NIC (if you take backup
via network).

Regards, Vitaly

-----Original Message-----
From: Evan Gold [mailto:egold AT FSA DOT COM]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 11:48 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] LTO2 tape drives - fibre vs. scsi


Im getting some new HP LTO2 tape drives for my library and i have 2 extra
1GB brocade switches.

Is there a big advantage to getting fibre attached tape drives compared to
scsi?

The legato 7 server is on a mid range sun server running solaris 8.

thanks!

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