1Features
Features
The EXB-8205, EXB-8205XL, EXB-8505, and EXB-8505XL are enhanced 8mm digital helical-scan cartridge tape subsystems (tape drives). The tape drives are packaged in the industry standard 5.25-inch half-high form factor, which allows for ease of integration across a multitude of platforms.
Featuring an integral Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) controller (either single-ended or differential configuration), these tape drives are the easily integrated solution to your journaling, archiving, data interchange, software distribution, imaging, data acquisition, and backup/restore needs.
Note: This specification applies to the EXB-8205, EXB-8205XL, EXB-8505, and EXB-8505XL. However, most of the illustrations in this manual show the EXB-8505.
In their compressed modes, the EXB-8205 can store up to 5 GBytes and the EXB-8505 can store up to 10 GBytes on a single 112m data cartridge, assuming an average compression ratio of 2:1.
The eXtended-Length (XL) configurations of these tape drives provide additional capacity by supporting EXATAPE™ 160m XL 8mm Data Cartridges. Assuming an average compression ratio of 2:1, the EXB-8505XL can store up to 14 GBytes of data on a single 160m XL data cartridge. Assuming the same compression ratio, the EXB-8205XL can store up to 7 GBytes on a single data cartridge.
For more information on EXATAPE data cartridge capacity, see page 1-8.For more information on EXATAPE data cartridges, see page 1-20.
#Important EXATAPE 160m XL 8mm Data Cartridges are only supported by the extended length tape drives (EXB-8205XL and EXB-8505XL). The standard tape drives (EXB-8205 and EXB-8505) cannot write on or read from 160m XL data cartridges and will automatically eject them.
As shown in Figure 1-1,the four tape drive models look identical, except for minor differences in the LEDs and the unload button.
