HP SL500 (M852x) manual Supported Tape Drives, LTO Ultrium, LTO Generation 3 Specifications

Overview of the Tape Library Supported Tape Drives

Supported Tape Drives

The tape library can accommodate from 1 to 14 tape drives. The LTO generation 3 tape drives supports Ultrium 3 media, Ultrium 2 media, and Ultrium 1 media (read only).

Figure 1-9. Supported Tape Drives

Product Number Description

N1523A	LTO Generation 3 tape drive with SCSI Interface for NonStop S-series
	servers
M8504	LTO Generation 3 tape drive with a Fibre Channel interface for
	Integrity NonStop NS-series servers

LTO Ultrium

Linear-Tape Open (LTO) is a set of tape data format standards created to enable data interchange among different LTO Ultrium tape drive vendors. These LTO Ultrium standards allow data cartridges to be shared.

Table 1-2. LTO Generation 3 Specifications

Specification	Performance
Capacity, native (uncompressed)	400 gigabytes
Capacity (compressed)	800 gigabytes
Data transfer rate, native (uncompressed)	80 megabytes per second

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