On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 at 3:56pm, Mitch Collinsworth wrote

> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> 
> > Actually, with LTO3, I'm a bit worried about keeping the tape streaming
> > when writing from staged dumps.  Native transfer rate of LTO-3 is stated
> > as 288 GB/hr, which is about 76 MiB/s.  That's more than most single
> > spindles can handle, *especially* if you're trying to write to tape while
> > other dumps are coming in to the holding disk.  Looks like I'll have to do
> > some work on the server end to really get this thing going.
> 
> Wow, that's impressive.  First question is: what does the drive do when
> you can't feed it data fast enough?  Depending on the answer you may
> or may not actually care enough to worry about it.

According to my vendor, LTO is variable speed.  So the drive will throttle 
down to whatever it can get.  So, I'll worry about it, but not obsess over 
it (well, too much at least).

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University