[CentOS] Tape drive throughput

On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 at 4:40pm, Charles Lacroix wrote

> I know this won't help you much but just assume that tapes are very slow ...

This is no longer a valid assumption with tapes.  LTO3 (yes, I know that's 
not what the OP is using) gets 80MB/s natively.  I wouldn't call that 
slow.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University