Re: transfer rate terminology

2010-07-08 Thread Mehdi Salehi
Thanks for your replies. According to IBM, 3592 J1A tape drive has Compressed sustained data rate of 80 MB/s and Maximum interface burst transfer rate of 200 MB/s http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ts3500tl/v1r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.storage.3584.doc/ipg_3584_a69p0cti20.html When

Re: transfer rate terminology

2010-07-08 Thread Richard Sims
On Jul 8, 2010, at 3:10 AM, Mehdi Salehi wrote: Thanks for your replies. According to IBM, 3592 J1A tape drive has Compressed sustained data rate of 80 MB/s and Maximum interface burst transfer rate of 200 MB/s

transfer rate terminology

2010-07-07 Thread Mehdi Salehi
Hi, What do sustained data rate and burst transfer rate mean? I appreciate your explanation or any reference. Thanks

Re: transfer rate terminology

2010-07-07 Thread Richard Sims
Burst rate refers to the transfer of data which the hardware component happens to have immediately at hand, as in a cache buffer. Sustained rate refers to the long-term average where the hardware has to also get data by seeking to a position on the medium and reading from it, which takes much

Re: transfer rate terminology

2010-07-07 Thread Bruce T. Harvey
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