* Nicholas Brockner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20070918 14:04]: > Hi All, > > Does anyone have experience with either the qualstar RLS-8236 or the > Overland ArcVault 48 (both with LTO3 drives?). Specifically I am > looking for comments related to reliability of the hardware, although it > may not hurt to know about amanda compatibility as well.
Not exacly what you have but afaic the ArcVault24 with 2 LTO-3 so far so good. I can't comment on reliability as the 2 I have are 1+ month old. Not sure if the AV48 loads the same way as the AV24 but that's the only thing that concerns me a bit: the magasizes look a little flimsy. I'm pretty sure that they would shatter if I had the malchance of dropping them on the floor. I had no problems configuring amanda (64bit compiled) using them as I can drive the changer with mtx out-of-the-box. I tested different blocksizes for the LTO-3s and I didn't find what others have reported here that to get decent performance (>60MBs) you need to go towards bigger default amanda blocksize (32K). I routinely get 65-70MBs from the holddisk to the tapes with 32K. Very happy with that! All this on a box running Debian/etch running 2.6.21.5-i686-64-smp, 8 core Xeon with lotsa ram (12GB!). The AV24 library is connected to the host through a LSI U320 PCI-X scsi card. No virgens were involved (knocking wood here...). HTH, jf > > Thanks, > Nick -- <° ><
