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You are correct that 4 LTO6 drives all in all out max compressed throughput is roughly 13Gb per second. This is 2/3rs more than a single 8G port can support.

However it would be quite rare for most IBM i customers to have a sufficiently sized system to drive those drives to that level!!

That said, if you've invested in four drives you likely have a pretty big system and should do your homework on port speed, and for that matter the PCI-e Slot speed you're using!!

For THE VAST Majority of IBM i customers upgrading their tape drive beyond LTO6 is likely to result in zero reduction in backup time. Most wouldn't notice anything above LTO5. They just don't have the I/O infrastructure to push it.

Only reason I bring this up is I hate to see customers investing in LTO7 drives (And $50+ Tapes) along with 16Gb Fiber ports when a SAS card with LTO5 drive (And $20 tapes) will do the backup in the same time!

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 1/30/2020 8:10 AM, Holger Scherer wrote:
right. Then also not to forget to have the IBM i host have multiple NPIV capable ports to gain faster speed.
It's of not much use to have one 8GBit fiber port on the host and 4 fast LTO6 drives with one 8GBit (or faster)
port for each drive. Been there, done that ;-)
-h

Am 30.01.2020 um 13:59 schrieb Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>:

One big difference between a VTL and one of those IBM 3xxx series physical libraries with multiple drives is that the VTL uses a single port on the NPIV capable switch even if it has multiple tape drives configured in it. The physical library has you run a separate cable from each drive in the library to the NPIV switch.


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