Holy crap! How fast can an IBM model 3590 tape drive write data...

[Noriaki]

I was just in a hardware upgrade meeting and they were talking about upgrading the Ultra2Wide (80MB/s) SCSI connection on our tape drives up to fibre channel becuase these tape drives are being rather hindered by the slow 80MB/s....

WTF?!?!?! what kind of nutty tape drive is limited by U2W SCSI !!

Anyhow..anyone know how fast IBM 3590 tape drives can read and write data?

 

[Sugadaddy]

Here you go

Doesn't look like it can fill up U2W bandwidth...

 

[Xe0n]

well, if you have 10 tape drives going at once, an each has potential to take 14 m/s, thats 140 m/s that could be used but you can only use 80 of it

 

[Noriaki]

Ah yes we have 9 of the drives that would be why

I was wondering there...I didn't think tapes could go that fast.