On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 15:07:22 -0400, Mark Klein
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>David Rutherford asks wrt DLT7000 (and no, I didn't ask him to do this):
>
>>Can anybody share their experiences - good or bad. I am particularly
>>interested in how much time was actually saved  vs  the advertised savings.
>
><Plug Alert>
>
>Coincidently, I just finished a performance test of DLT7000s at HP and will
>be publishing the results on our web page at http://www.orbitsw.com in the
>near future. In summary, I saw performance in that configuration from the
>low side of 18 Gigabytes per hour to 56 Gigabytes per hour at the high
>end. The averages were in the upper 30s to low 40s when using a mixture
>of software and hardware compression over more typical configurations.
>

Could you do something similar with AIT? The technology appears to be
eclipsing that of DLT (esp, with AIT-2).

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Mark Landin                   "For anyone who was never good at
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UNIX Sys. Admin                real boon" --- my mom