5.4  Cartridge Fill Times Performance Results Figures 5.1-5.2 summarize fill time and sustained transfer rate statistics of the IBM Ultrium 2 and IBM Ultrium 1 tape drives.  The charts show the following statistics for the comparison: IBM Ultrium 2 with Ultrium 2 media IBM Ultrium 2 with Ultrium 1 media IBM Ultrium 1 with Ultrium 1 media Figure 5.1 shows that the IBM Ultrium 2 is faster at filling both the double capacity Ultrium 2 media as well as the Ultrium 1 media.   Figure 5.1:  Cartridge Fill Times (non-compressible data) 118 89 104 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 Ultrium2 - Gen2 Media (200GB) Ultrium2 - Gen1 Media (100GB) Ultrium1 - Gen1 Media (100GB) Cartridge Fill Times Page 13 of 20 p1   p2   p3   p4   p5   p6   p7   p8   p9   p10   p11   p12
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