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Hardware Data Transfer Rates

Your backup hardware is unlikely to be a limiting factor in reaching your target data transfer rate. Most devices are very fast. However, you should evaluate hardware speed at the planning stage. At a minimum, you must have enough hardware, or fast enough hardware, to write your data to storage media within the time allowed. Smaller numbers of fast devices or larger numbers of slower devices can often achieve the same total throughput. Use the information that follows to estimate the aggregate data transfer rate for your hardware.