On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Mike Delaney wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:42:19PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Whats the rated read/write speeds on that drive Tom? For amanda to be
> > useable, it needs to be able to do a more or less normal backup in
> > not more than 3-4 hours total elapsed time. Can it fill that sized
> > disk in a reasonable time frame?
>
> I'm currently putting about 20GB on there per run in the space of about
> 3 hours. Mind, that's going straight to tape and with one really slow
> host (which also happens to be the Amanda server) in the mix.
>
> Iomega claims they're "8x faster than tape", with the fine print qualifying
> that as 8x faster than DDS4. It probably won't beat, say, an LTO-2 for
> speed.
If you're running Linux, could you try `hdparm -tT' to get an impression of the
raw speed?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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