30MB/s? You have some kind of I/O bottleneck there.  Running multiple 
streams with compression, we get about 80-95MB/s max on LTO2.


On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Austin Murphy wrote:

> 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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