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Product Specifications

This appendix lists the product specifications for the StorageWorks 8505 8mm Cartridge Tape Drive.

Read & Write Format

Recording Format — 8mm Helical-Scan Digital Computer Tape

Head Configuration — Read-after-write head pairs with separate full-width erase head Linear Density

8500 mode — 45434 bpi

8200 mode — 43271 bpi Track Density

8500 mode — 1638 tracks per inch

8200 mode — 819 tracks per inch Area Density

8500 mode — 74 million bits/sq. inch

8200 mode — 35 million bits/sq. inch

Formatted Capacity with a TKZ8x (112 meter tape)

5000 MBytes (native)

10,000 MBytes (compressed) 1

Controller Features

Integrated SCSI Controller and Formatter

Standard SCSI Interface Connection (single-ended)

Onboard Error Correction Code (ECC) — (ECC: Reed-Solomon Product Code) Error Recovery Procedures (ERP)

Transfer rate (peak):

5.0MBytes/sec. synchronous

2.5MBytes/sec. asynchronous

1Compression capacity and throughput ratios will vary dependent upon type of data.

Order Number: EK–STWCT–UG. E01

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