I'd say the more important thing to consider is Bus speed (and contention).
The I/O capabilities of a media server are the first consideration when
coming up with a design.  Make sure the bus can handle the speeds required,
especially if you're going to share the bus with other cards.

Also, keep in mind that Windows is notoriously bad with small files, on the
order of 4-6 times worse than Unix at handling them.  So if this is the 

I would think a 4-way box with 2Ghz cpu's or better would do the job in
terms of horsepower.

-Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Fabbro, Andrew P [mailto:Fabbro.Andrew AT cnf DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 12:52
To: 'jmaley AT macromedia DOT com'; Moses, Darby
Cc: Veritas-BU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Driving LTO-2 Drives From Windows


We may have an environment where we'll be deploying LTO Gen-2 drives
attached to a Windows media server.  The data will be coming in over 2Gbps
SAN and I'm guessing 60MB/sec to write it out per drive (based on 30MB/sec
we get with Gen-1).  We're 2GBps at all points so there shouldn't be any
problems there...

...but I'm wondering what size Windows box I'll need to drive 240MB/sec?  Is
a 4-way enough?  8-way?  Anyone doing something like this?

--
 Drew Fabbro [fabbro.andrew AT cnf DOT com]
 Unix Systems Group
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 Cell: 503-701-0369
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