On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 at 12:30pm, stan wrote
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 09:31:17AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
FYI, I found that I got faster speeds with LTO3 by using larger than the
default blocksize of 32KB. My nightly amanda backups get ~70MB/s using
2MB blocks.
I went back and tries this, and at least with my current hardware, it's
quite a bit slower:
As an aside, I did my testing with tar, not amtapetype.
speed 6952 kps
Yeah, that's not so good.
Hopefully when my new PCI-X SCSI card shows up, this will get a lot better.
What's it hooked up to now?
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
