This was posted on the Yahoo thread:
First head to head benchmark test in a trade magazine was distributed to us Exabyters today. It must be a pre-release, because it was sent to us in a .jpg
format. It's from a computing magazine in the UK called PCPro. I guess because these things take so much time to
get written & ready to publish, the M2 drive they tested was an alpha unit. The test must've occurred last fall. They
tested it with CA ARCserveIT and Veritas Backup Exec, although neither had final optimized drivers available at the
time of the test. Nine other tape drives were tested, from Travan and DDS drives up to AIT2 and DLT 8000. They
tested a lot of different parameters - capacity, read speed, write speed, verify speed, etc.
The result - even with Alpha firmware and less-than-perfect drivers, M2 absolutely smoked everything else in the test.
It was on the top of every chart. Some quotes - "In this month's group test we take a look at ten of the best tape drives
on the market...Mammoth-2 out-performed all the other review products by a huge margin and so could shake the
tape drive market to its foundation...M2 offers great value and takes enterprise backup to a new level." In one of the
test charts, I believe it was for verify speed, the M2 number was literally off the chart. |
