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Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T10000 tape drive

2007-09-13 11:12:52
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T10000 tape drive
From: "Brad Hillebrand" <brad.hillebrand AT gmail DOT com>
To: "Gregory Demilde" <gdemilde AT gmail DOT com>, veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:54:51 -0400
I agree, in my environment I have not seen anything that can saturate a 2GB FC link.  I am thinking that choosing a drive with more speeds will give improved "real-world" performance rather than a drive that can peak very high.  (although peaks of 180 MB/s would blow my socks off :) )

On 9/13/07, Gregory Demilde <gdemilde AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
The biggest problem is to have an architecture that can feed that
transfer rate  ..  because at those speed, one drive just saturates a
2 Gb FC link. ;op

On 9/13/07, Justin Piszcz < jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Gregory Demilde wrote:
>
> > Native drive speed of the T10K is 120 MB/s ... it is even closer to
> > 130 MB/s..; so If you are using compression and you feed the data fast
> > enough you can go over the 170 MB/s.. I had peaks over the 180 MB/s
> >
> >
> >
> > On 9/13/07, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com > wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Schaefer, Harry wrote:
> >>
> >>> FWIW, I have done write tests with ours and based on output from iostat
> >>> -xtc, the write speeds were between 100-105 mb/sec...
> >>>
> >>> Harry
> >>
> >> But that is just the read speed of the hard drives yeah?  If the data
> >> stream is compressed 2:1 the tape only writes then at 50-52.5 MiB/s.
> >>
> >> I recall watching catalog backups write to tape and I would see the disk
> >> reading at 100-120 MiB/s, was the LTO-2 tape that is was backing the
> >> catalog up to writing that fast?  No, compression was being used.
> >>
> >> Justin.
> >>
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> >
>
> I was referring to LTO-X but nice info!
>
> Justin.
>


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