[Beowulf] Re: OT: LTO Ultrium (3) throughput? (Steve Cousins)

Steve Cousins cousins at umit.maine.edu
Wed Jul 2 15:43:17 PDT 2008



On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, David Mathog wrote:

> Steve Cousins <cousins at umit.maine.edu> wrote:
>
> Do different LTO-3 drives have different maximum tape write speeds?


I don't know. I've always heard 80 MB/sec. lto.org shows:

http://www.lto.org/technology/ugen.php?section=0&subsec=ugen

for lto-3 "up to 160 MB/sec" which of course is with 2:1 compression and 
therefore 80 MB/sec uncompressed.


Steve



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