LTO4 Backup Speed

[Poon_William]

Hi All,

Would like to gather feedback about performance of LTO4 drives. What is the maximum speed that you have experienced on the followings ?

SAN Backup (Unix Media server) :

SAN Backup (Windows Media server):

LAN Backup (For Unix clients on Gigabit LAN):

LAN Backup (For Windows clients on Gigabit LAN):

Rgds,

WP

[Philip_Drew]

Windows Media Server on Fibre SAN and with extensive buffer tests (optimum I found was 256 x 64K buffers) I got 802633495Kb of data in 02:43:22 = 87563 KB/sec (300.6 GB per hour)