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Re: LTO drives

2008-11-10 12:19:04
Subject: Re: LTO drives
From: Jean-Francois Malouin <Jean-Francois.Malouin AT bic.mni.mcgill DOT ca>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:12:39 -0500
* Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu> [20081107 15:12]:
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 at 10:51am, Nick Brockner wrote
> 
> >LTO4 does not shoe-shine, it has variable speed motors.
> 
> But there's generally a lower limit on those speeds.  With LTO3, at least, 
> the lower limit is 1/2 the native rate.  LTO3's native rate is 80MB/s, so 
> anything below 40MB/s and you're in trouble.
> 
> Has that changed with LTO4?

>From the little I know, LTO-4 will stream from 40-120MBs. 
The question though is: will it stream continously in that range?

Feel free to educate me.

regards,
jf

> 
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> Joshua Baker-LePain
> QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
> UCSF

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