> ...but you say here you're going to LTO-4.  My big concern would be
> in terms of being able to push data fast enough at the drives to keep
> them from shoe-shining.  LTO-4 has a simply HUGE data rate.

That's the fastest, but LTO has slower straming modes.

My vendor got me a list of the supported streaming modes for LTO3 and
LTO4, and the lowest mode on 4 was actually less than the lowest on 3
(somewhere around 15MB/s or so from memory).  

I might be buying some in the future purely for capacity reasons, not
for speed reasons.  If so, hopefully I can confirm that.

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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