On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, gina_fle wrote:

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> If I was running only six LTO4 drives that is capable of 120MB on a 1GB fiber 
> hba, would that be a bottleneck?  120 x 6 = 720MB even though the switch is 
> 1GB?
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Only 6?

I'd recommend 4 Gbps dedicated BW per each LTO-4 drives.

We're still using LTO-3 and see those speeds for backups and restores with 
dedicated 4 Gbps fiber links <-> server.

Justin.
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