Neil Harvey comments:

>But I still consider this impressive - less than two hours for 27 GB.

and then questions how DLT might perform.

Lee Gunther reported his findings a while back to the list and they were
around 17 GB/hour to two DLTs sharing the same channel. He was
bottlenecked by the channel bandwidth and the fact that the devices
weren't each on their own channel. Even so, extrapolating his results
from two to four devices on at least two separate channels (Neil's case
used four devices), one would expect the performance to be somewhere
around 50 minutes for the same 27 GB (27 / (17 * 2)). YMMV.

Lee - you listening? What were your results when you went to separate
channels?


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Regards,

M.