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Ah Ha!! New acronym. Should've guessed it.
> 
> Google for RAIT tape drives.  I got several hits.
> 
> But as far as performance, a new LTO Gen. 2 tape can handle 30 MB / sec.
> of data.  

I'm looking at an array of less expensive drives like the Ecrix gen 2
drive (still $1k but now does 12MB/sec). this won't come close to
saturating the U160 controller so hand 2 drives. The Ecrix drives can
also do variable speed writes by slowing the tape down if the need
arises.
> 
> With that sort of speed, the issue is typically "how do I get data fast
> enough to keep the drive streaming?", not "how do I make the tape drive
> faster?".

Dual Gigabit ethernet!
> 
> HTH
> Greg
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