[CentOS] Tape drive throughput

Sun Jun 11 10:50:18 UTC 2006
Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu>

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.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University