Exabyte EXB-8505 8mm manual Storage Capacity, Length Approximate Capacity to Leot a in MBytes

1 Features

	Storage Capacity
		Table 1-4lists the approximate storage capacities of 8mm data
		cartridges written in the four logical formats. For more information
		on EXATAPE 8mm data cartridges, see page 1-20.
Table 1-4Approximate capacities of EXATAPE data cartridges
Length of			Approximate Capacity to LEOTa in MBytes
EXATAPE
		8500c		8500 format	8200c
		compressed
		formatb		(EXB-8505 and	compressed	8200 format
		(EXB-8505 and		EXB-8505XL)	formatb
		EXB-8505XL)
15m		1,176		588	588	294
54m		4,697		2,348	2,348	1,174
112m		9,888		4,944	4,698	2,349
160m XLc		14,000		7,000	7,000	3,500

aLogical end of tape.

bThese columns assume an average compression ratio of 2:1 (on average, each compressed 1,024-byte physical block represents 2,048 bytes of user data).

cEXATAPE 160m XL extended length media is compatible with the EXB-8205XL and EXB-8505XL only.

1-8	EXB-8205 and EXB-8505	510504
	(Standard and XL)