I guess that this is ok to plug backup software.
Does HP's TurboStore products store as fast?
Is there a compare of "all brands" of backup software available to the
hp3000. such as

Turbostore with software or hardware compression
TurboStoreII with software or hardware compression
TurboStore true on-line with software or hardware compression
RoadRunner with software or hardware compression
ORBit with software or hardware compression

If a case can be made that buying dlt8000's were not going to perform to
standard unless a third party software product were purchased as well, then
why would anybody upgrade beyond the dlt4000's or dlt7000's?

Joseph Dolliver
e3k Solutions, Inc
483 Hawk Ridge Lane
Sykesville, MD 21784

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----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: dlt woes


> Carl wrote:
>
> >Truth be told the HP3000 cannot drive any tape device at more that ~5
Mb/s,
> >about what the DLT4000 can handle.  The DLT8000 is rated for about 2 to 3
> >times that rate.
>
> Actually, that isn't really the case - the 3000 is capable of driving
> the drives, including the DLT8000 at those rates, given that the
> proper configuration and balance of hardware exists and the software
> is capable of those speeds.
>
> <plug alert>
> ORBiT's Backup+ has demonstrated that it is capable of streaming
> those devices on a properly configured system. In that testing,
> we (verifiable by HP) were able to backup at the rate of 60gb/hr
> to a single DLT! Mind you, in that case the database had highly
> compressible data. But, even at 3:1 compression, that still
> indicates the rate of 20gb/hr for the data stream to the DLT.
> </plug alert>
>
> The machine is absolutely capable of those speeds.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> M.
>