Chapter 5 Specifications

Drive Performance Specifications

Drive Performance Specifications

Table 8 lists the performance specifications for the LTO-3 Tape Drive.

Table 8 Drive

Performance

Specifications

Specification

Value

 

 

Capacity

 

LTO Ultrium 3 (680 m)

400 Gbytes (native)

 

 

Recording density

5,120 RLL-encoded ONEs per mm

 

 

Flux density

10249 cells per mm

 

 

Track density

70 tracks per mm

 

 

Error recovery

Read-after-write Reed Solomon

 

ECC (2 levels)

 

 

Recording unrecoverable errors

Less than 1 in 1017 data bits

Recording undetectable errors

Less than 1 in 1027 data bits

Tape drive type

LTO (Ultrium)

 

 

Head configuration

2 bumps

 

16 thin-film write heads per bump

 

16 MR read heads per bump

 

2 MR servo heads per bump

 

 

Recording format

Ultrium 16-channel (U-38)

 

 

Recording method

0, 13/11 RLL

 

 

Transfer rate (sustained)

68 Mbytes/second (max, native)

 

 

Synchronous transfer rate

160 Mbytes per sec max

(burst)

 

 

 

Cartridge unload time

30 seconds

 

 

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Quantum LTO-3 manual Drive Performance Specifications, Specification Value