I'll second that on the 9940B. We're running 9940A drives here and we
are finishing up an eval of 9940Bs. I was getting 60MB/sec
consistently, and depending on the compressibility of the data, I was
able to put between 800GB to 3.2TB on a single tape.
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 11:12, Quarantine wrote:
> To echo Johnny: I sure wish I had the capacity of the 9940B, and FC is
> definitely the way to go.
>
> Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johnny Oestergaard [mailto:joe AT spamcop DOT net]
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 9:41 AM
> To: Letnes, David G.; 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 9840 tape drive question
>
> I don't think you will get that performance out of the drives in a mixed
> installation.
> On very large files it should work, but on normal fileservers you will have
> to have a lot of multiplexing to get it.
>
> If you don't need the extremely fast loadtime and positioning of the 9840B
> drives I would look into 9940B. They are faster (except for load and
> positioning) and they can hold a lot more data per tape.
>
> We use our 9940B's in a windows only installation, but if you have a lot of
> data I would look into using Solaris for the master and media servers.
>
> I would also go for a FC only solution.
>
> /johnny
>
> At 17:18 30-07-2003 -0500, Letnes, David G. wrote:
>
> > I am trying to calculate how many drives it will take to backup our data
> >for a new silo we are pricing out. The tape drives will be 9840's and I am
> >using the max speed of 18 MBps which is about 65 Gig an hour? The
> formula
> >I am using looks like this...
> >
> >
> >
> > Backup Data Volume
> > ------------------------------------------
> >= How many drives you will need
> > Tape drive throughput * backup window
> >
> >
> >The speed I rated the 9840 tape drive; is that about 65 Gig an hour?
> >
> >Are there any other formulas people use to determine how many tape drives
> >you will need?
> >
> >Thanks
> >David
> >
> >
> >
> >
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