Isn't this true for most of the high end drives?
None of them are "variable" speed, but will write at one of 2 or 3 fixed
speeds.


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf 
> Of Austin Murphy
> Sent: September 12, 2007 5:23 PM
> To: Brad Hillebrand
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T10000 tape drive
> 
> 
> I don't use them, but I did some research.
> One gotcha that I came across was the writing speed.  They can only
> write at either 120 MB/sec or 50 MB/sec.  There is no in between. Your
> disk staging or virtual tape better be able to spit out the data at
> one of those rates or the thing will shoe-shine like crazy.
> 
> LTO-4 drives are likely to be easier to feed data and a lot cheaper.
> I haven't compared prices with the hardware encryption options, but
> w/o the encryption the drive prices are something like $5k vs. $30k.
> 
> Also LTO-4 native capacity is 800 GB vs 500 GB for the T10k.  Both can
> write at 120 MB/Sec.
> 
> Austin
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