On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 at 9:55am, Justin Piszcz wrote > > > I've been able to push a single LTO2 tape to 93-96MB/s and single LTO3 > > tape to 137-139MB/s. Note, the drive is an HP-Ultrium2-SCSI and > > HP-Ultrium3-SCSI and nothing else was connected to the SCSI bus. I used > > NetBackup to perform the tests with various levels of multiplexing. > > *And* your data was obviously fairly compressible. Native rated speed for > LTO3 is 80MB/s. > > -- > Joshua Baker-LePain > Department of Biomedical Engineering > Duke University > > Correct, I optimized all settings I could find. I used a file that was all A's, i.e.: AAAAAAAAA and placed it on a ram disk. I wanted to see how far I could push the drive/tape. With regular filesystem data, I hit 90-127MB/s depending on the level of multiplexing.