Re: tape drive performing slow with star?

From: Oscar del Rio (delrio_at_mie.utoronto.ca)
Date: 02/06/04 

Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 10:35:18 -0500

T.T. Harris wrote:
> We are using a Sun Fire 280R with an internal DDS4 tape drive on Solaris 8.
> The system was backing up about 25 gig in documents and some miscellaneous
> other stuff to this tapedrive using ufsdump.
>
> The tape transfer rate was a "staggering" +/-3000 KBps.
>
> I figured that's too low, so we recently installed star.

Aren't those tape drives rated at about 3 MB/s sustained, native
transfer rate?

http://www.hp.com/products1/storage/products/tapebackup/dds_dat_drives/dds4_dat40/infolibrary/surestore_dat_40_tape_drive.pdf

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