15 May
2007
15 May
'07
6:07 p.m.
Jim Attfield wrote:
On the system I had it hooked up to (a 933MHz Linux box with hardware
RAID) keeping the drives fed was no problem.
Anyway, I'm happy to see that, although seeming to need a cleaning tape
every 4 loads or so, they function as expected :-)
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From: Jim
Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org>
I have several 35/70GB DLT drives on various systems and they all do between
240MB/minute to 400MB/minute depending on the speed of the disk systems (and
to some extent CPU's) they are backing up so yours certainly seems in the
ball park. You can't go by interface (10MB/s) or bus (132MB/S) speed, it's
purely down to the highest rate the drive can stream at and making sure you
can feed it data fast enough to keep it in 'streaming' mode. Don't confuse interface speed vs. actual
media speed.
True, but I didn't have a basis for comparison. I'm hearing
that 4MB/s
is indeed slightly above par, so I guess I should be happy .