On 15 Oct 2008 11:16:39 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >At my company, we are looking at FATA drives to put our HSM ML1 (1 year >period) data on it . >Does someone have some experience doeing this ? > >Today we do not use ML1 and write directly to ML2 , NATIVE tapedrives from >SUN/STK. >Current drives are fast enough to do the HSM migrate and recall work. But we >are running out of slots in the robot and want to replace current tapedrives >with new K1000 drives from SUN/STK. >This drives can write much more data to tape (capacity drives), but are also >slower . We also want to eliminate the native drives for HSM work because >HSM can not put enough "work" on the drives due to its 16K blocksize >limitation (IBM has no plans to change this in the nearby future). > >So ... we are investigating FATA and you ? > Given that many disk files have block sizes larger than 16K, could you elaborate on what the 16K blocksize limitation is?
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