We are using a 3590 on AIX on a J40. In the following example we were
running a Shared Memory Client and backed up a 2 GB file in 11 min 12
sec, which equates to  3,195,659/sec. Big files go faster than small
files, so this is a best case scenario.

11/11/97   00:40:13 Normal File-->   2,147,483,136 /backup/402/trend.fb
Sent
11/11/97   00:51:25 Normal File-->         175,104 /backup/450/bedata.fb
Sent

Randy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kelly J. Lipp [SMTP:lipp AT STORSOL DOT COM]
> Sent: Friday, November 14, 1997 1:47 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      3590 Tape Performance
>
> Anyone:
>
> What sort of data rates are you seeing writing information from AIX
> RS6000 to 3590 tape drives?
>
> Is 3 MB/Sec a reasonable expectation?  I'm writing from an SSA RAID
> array.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kelly