Re: No performance increase from 3590 B11 to 3590 E11

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 10:07 AM 2/1/01 -0500, you wrote:

Yes.  Your model 730 is not fast enough to drive the E11 at rated speed!

You will need to upgrade to an 8xx box and attach the E11 through PCI.

Sorry

Al


>I currently have a model 730 running V4R4 and have currently upgraded from a
>3590 B11 to a 3590 E11. The drive is attached to a 6534 SCSI SPD card.  I'm
>not seeing the promised 50% increase on my full system backups. The backups
>have run for 10 hours on both the B11 and E11.  IBM states that the E11 has
>a faster data transfer rate of 14mbs vs 9mbs for the B11.  Has anyone
>experienced this problem? Any suggestions?  Thanks



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