I'm running LTO2 drives with a mix of LTO2 and LTO1 media -- we kept the
LTO1 tapes for off-siting because we have LTO1 drives in our hot-site
contract and because reclaim processing based on %full tends to suck as
the capacity increases.

So far (6 months experience) it looks like you will get at least LTO1
performance; reclaims and copies may even work a bit faster because of
the higher drive transfer rate, if your system can deliver data at that
rate.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

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Thach, Kevin G
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 1:52 PM
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Subject: LTO2 tape drive performance with LTO1 media?

We're looking at replacing our current LTO1 tape drives with LTO2
drives, and I was wondering what the performance is like using LTO1
media on an LTO2 drive?  Will I see the same performance benefit, just
without the increased capacity, or is the performance benefit less with
an LTO1 cartridge?

We have an abundance of LTO1 media, so we won't be changing media types
any time soon.

Any info is appreciated!

Thanks

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