LTO Tape Technologies update

[Shaun Cammack]

Yes, it is a PCIe 3 card, but even with the slot it is in (which, I’ll admit, is a PCIe 1.1 slot at x4), it should still be able to push 1GB/s of data according to PCIe spec, right? I’m only getting 150MB/s to tape according to BRU. Unless the H1280 is doing something weird and falling back even slower, it seems odd that I wouldn’t be getting faster transfers from the card.

And my server is accessing itself using localhost.

[Doug Weiner]

Did you ever figure this out?

[Shaun Cammack]

Apologies, Doug, no, nothing has changed. Even moving to the 5,1 Mac Pro and putting the H1280 in slot 2, which is an x16 slot, I am still only getting 2.5GT/s at x8…which should still be fast enough to push enough data to the tape drive.