Hi,

05.09.2008 11:40, T. Horsnell wrote:
> Arno Lehmann wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 05.09.2008 03:24, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj AT umdnj DOT 
>>> edu> wrote:
...
>>>> John Huttley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> To follow up, LTO drives are very fast and this can be a liability.
>>>>> However some drives, notably those by HP and some models by Tandberg 
>>>>> support
>>>>> variable speed writing. Normally down to 50% of normal.
>>>>> These are resistant to shoe shining even without spooling.
>>
>> I would rather say they are *more* resistant to shoe-shining - if your 
>> drive can write up to 150 MB/s and throttle down to 80 MB/s you will 
>> still see shoe-shining if you only get backup throughput of 50 MB/s.
>>
>> Arno
> 
> Its starting to look like slower drives may mean faster backups
> in some cases...

Indeed... that's one of the reasons why there remain so many different 
tape technologies - even slower ones still have their place.

Arno

> Terry
> 
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