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On 17 May 2015 at 23:43, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net> wrote:

> For others interested i have this drive running in backup server now. it's
> used with GEOM_ELI and UFS.
>
> What about performance:
>
> Excellent on reads. Tolerable on writes as long as you will not write more
> than 10-15GB in a short time, then it REALLY slows down.
>


What sort of performance do you get when you use the drive as intended (i.
e. tape-on-disk), either using tar or dd to raw device, i. e. where the
writes are always linear and not scattered?


-- 
Igor M.