Re: [Bacula-users] usb LTO4/5 tape

2011-02-10 Thread Alan Brown
Phil Stracchino wrote: > (Footnote: LTO technology is now planned to extend out to LTO8, with > native uncompressed capacity of 12.8TB and transfer rate of 472MB/s. I'm wondering what the native capacity of the next generation LTOs will be, what with Oracle announcing 5Tb native capacity format

Re: [Bacula-users] usb LTO4/5 tape

2011-02-08 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/8/2011 12:56 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 02/08/11 11:19, Eric Bollengier wrote: >> USB 3.0 is available and is about 4.8Gbit/s (600 MB/s)... :-) >> >> http://hothardware.com/News/USB-30-and-SATA-6G-Performance-Preview/ > For very limited, bleeding-edge values of "available". ;) Yes, but

Re: [Bacula-users] usb LTO4/5 tape

2011-02-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 02/08/11 11:19, Eric Bollengier wrote: > USB 3.0 is available and is about 4.8Gbit/s (600 MB/s)... :-) > > http://hothardware.com/News/USB-30-and-SATA-6G-Performance-Preview/ For very limited, bleeding-edge values of "available". ;) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 4

Re: [Bacula-users] usb LTO4/5 tape

2011-02-08 Thread Eric Bollengier
Hello, Le mardi 08 février 2011 17:06:22, Phil Stracchino a écrit : > On 02/08/11 09:20, Alessandro Bono wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I need an LTO4 or LTO5 tape with usb interface, someone know a similar > > beast? > > "So what you've got to ask yourself is, do you feel lucky? Well, do ya > ... p

Re: [Bacula-users] usb LTO4/5 tape

2011-02-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 02/08/11 10:51, Alessandro Bono wrote: > I need only for disaster recovery so for this situation performance is > not so important, but I understand this performance level is required by > tecnologie Could you use eSATA? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.35

Re: [Bacula-users] usb LTO4/5 tape

2011-02-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 02/08/11 09:20, Alessandro Bono wrote: > Hi all > > I need an LTO4 or LTO5 tape with usb interface, someone know a similar > beast? "So what you've got to ask yourself is, do you feel lucky? Well, do ya ... punk?" "Full speed" USB 1.1 is 12 Mbit/s (roughly 1.44 MB/s). "High speed" USB 2.0 c

Re: [Bacula-users] usb LTO4/5 tape

2011-02-08 Thread Alessandro Bono
On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 16:06 +0100, Ralf Gross wrote: > Alessandro Bono schrieb: > > > > I need an LTO4 or LTO5 tape with usb interface, someone know a similar > > beast? > > I don't think there is something like this. LTO-4 needs a minimum > speed of 40 MB/s, if it falls below that the drive star

Re: [Bacula-users] usb LTO4/5 tape

2011-02-08 Thread Alessandro Bono
ca > > Arunav. > > -Original Message- > From: Ralf Gross [mailto:ralf-li...@ralfgross.de] > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 4:06 PM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] usb LTO4/5 tape > > Alessandro Bono schrieb: > >

Re: [Bacula-users] usb LTO4/5 tape

2011-02-08 Thread Arunav Mandal
LTO-5 needs FC to communicate with the host so I doubt it will be in USB. Arunav. -Original Message- From: Ralf Gross [mailto:ralf-li...@ralfgross.de] Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 4:06 PM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] usb LTO4/5 tape Alessandro

Re: [Bacula-users] usb LTO4/5 tape

2011-02-08 Thread Ralf Gross
Alessandro Bono schrieb: > > I need an LTO4 or LTO5 tape with usb interface, someone know a similar > beast? I don't think there is something like this. LTO-4 needs a minimum speed of 40 MB/s, if it falls below that the drive starts shoe-shining which will damage the tapes and drive heads sooner