hpss prod2 is a new HPSS setup that employs 1TB T10K data cartridges. The prod2 setup has
About 100GB of single files were transfered from one data server to HPSS. The transfer rate is about 55MB/s for larger files (> 100MB/s). For files below 100 MB rate measurement was accurate as the time resolution was only 1s.
About 8TB of data was transfered from eight servers (~1TB/server). After about 10h transfers started to fail because the disks on the movers were filled. At that time 6.5 TB were transfered.
The average transfer rate from disk to tape was about 78MB/s. Only one tape drive at a time was allowed for writing.