Re: Ecrix VXA tape drive performance

2000-04-02 Thread Garret J. Cleversley
I have 2 VXA drives installed on an upgraded 8500 to a 300mhz G3. I get an average of 160mb/min with an Adaptec 2940uw card. VXA has built-in compression so turn off software compression. I took Retrospect off my server. I prefer separation of services. I didn't have any problems but lots of peop

Re: Ecrix VXA tape drive performance

2000-04-02 Thread Jon Oplinger
>I have 2 VXA drives installed on an upgraded 8500 to a 300mhz G3. I get an >average of 160mb/min with an Adaptec 2940uw card. VXA has built-in >compression so turn off software compression. I downloaded the spec sheets and you're right...thanks. I had software compression turned on because I