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There is a significant difference between the raw data rate of a disk and the rate at which files can be read from a file system. This is because traversing a file system requires multiple, random disk accesses; whereas, a continuous read is limited only by the optimized data rates of the disk.
The difference between these two modes becomes more significant as file size reduces. For file systems where the files are typically smaller than 64 KB, sequential (or disk image) backups should be considered to achieve the data rates supported by high speed tape drives.
To measure the data rate from the disk subsystem, use PAT, HPReadData or the System Performance Backup Pre-Test of L&TT and select the method used by the backup - file-by-file or sequential (note that PAT is the only tool that measures sequential performance). These tools give the actual read transfer rate that the disk system can provide which can be compared with the expected data rate. |
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