On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 08:19:25AM +0100, Tim Verbois wrote:
> Yaron,
> 
> 1 drive gives 70 MB/s, the whole VTL has a top speed of 300 MB/s.  So 
> when we could read from 2 drives and write it to 1 LTO3 drive, it should 
> increase the speed with at least 30 MB/s for data that is compressable 
> (like file server data, we have a lot of that).

That's the bit I don't understand.  It's a VTL.  Why should reading from
two "drives" be significantly faster than reading from one?  If it's all
coming from disk, why the speed increase?

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