On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Esson, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  I recently swapped out a pair of LTO-2 drives for LTO-4 drives on a v5.1
> Media Server and have seen no throughput performance improvement.
>
Were the tape drives the bottleneck before?  If not - and for most users,
the tape drive is *NOT* the bottleneck - then replacing the drive with an
LTO-4 certainly won't speed things up and could even slow it down since the
tape drive will shoe-shine more now than before.
**

What evidence have you gathered to prove that the drives were the
bottleneck?
   .../Ed

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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