<<we see 40-50MB/sec when doing disk to tape jobs.>>

That is at the minimum required for LTO3.   Is anyone using LTO3 for 
D2D2T?   I'd like to understand what does and what does not work.  There 
is some pressure to start using LTO3 as the price gap narrows, but I doubt 
many of our systems can deliver the data rate even off local disk.  I 
think we will need to get some disk for staging so I too would like to 
know what works.

William D L Brown