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[Veritas-bu] LTO3 Drive Speed Poll
2006-07-19 14:22:10
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[Veritas-bu] LTO3 Drive Speed Poll |
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austin.murphy at gmail.com (Austin Murphy) |
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Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:22:10 -0400 |
The max numbers depend on the drive.
My HP LTO-2 drives max out at 30 MB/sec native and match down to 10 MB/sec.
Below the minimum rate the drive stops and starts as it's buffer fills
and empties. Also known as "shoeshining" due to the need to rewind
and reposition after each stop.
Austin
On 7/19/06, Jim Horalek <jimh at federaledge.com> wrote:
> An LTO-3 runs at 80MB/s native and will speed match down to 40MB/s
> An LTO-2 runs at 40MB/s and will speed match down to 19MB/s
> Below these rates the drive stops.
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