[Veritas-bu] dlt drive performance and aha-2944uw cards

Subject:	[Veritas-bu] dlt drive performance and aha-2944uw cards
From:	jmaley AT macromedia DOT com (Jeff Maley)
Date:	Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:39:39 -0800

we are getting ready to migrate our netbackup3.4.1 master from an an hp lh4 to 
a compaq dl380. currently, the lh4 has 5 aha-2944uw cards supporting 9 dlt 
drives in a stkl700 (2 drives per card, 1 left over). the new server doesn't 
have as many pci slots, so we are going to be limited to two cards (4 drives on 
one, 5 on the other). the specs for the cards indicate they can sustain 40mb/s 
so it seems like it should be fine (5 dlt drives @ 6mb/s = 30 mb/s) but i'm 
looking for real-world performance. anyone have a similar setup?

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