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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