James Overman writes:

>Maybe I'll get to play with DLT's someday.  But right now, dual DDS-3's do
>the job on our biggest system of 36.7G with 60% compression in 4 hours 24
>minutes with an average transfer rate of 431 to 483 K/S.

This transfer rate seems *really* low for DDS-3. Are you using DDS-3
tapes? On our Macintosh network, I see >1.5MB/S transfer rate to DDS-3,
and that's using the SCSI-1 port on the Mac, not its SCSI-2 port. In
fact, checking your math (36.7GB / 264*60 seconds), it looks like you're
getting 2.3MB/S.

-- Bruce


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