Drive Performance Specifications

Drive Performance Specifications

Table 20 Drive Performance Specifications

Table 20 lists the performance specifications of the LTO-3 Half-Height Tape Drive.

Specification

Value

 

 

Average data access time

60 seconds

(650-m tape) from BOW

 

(beginning of wrap)

 

 

 

Average rewind time

> 51 seconds

(650-m tape)

 

 

 

Max rewind time

< 120 seconds

(650-m tape)

 

 

 

Capacity

 

LTO Ultrium 3 (680 m)

400 Gbytes (native)

 

 

Cartridge unload time (if Table

25 seconds

of Contents does not require

 

updating)

 

 

 

Read Table of Contents

30 – 90 seconds (depending on size)

 

 

Error recovery

Read-after-write Reed Solomon

 

ECC (2 levels)

 

 

Flux density

10249 cells per mm

 

 

Head configuration

2 bumps

 

16 thin-film write heads per bump

 

16 MR read heads per bump

 

2 MR servo heads per bump

 

 

Maximum data access time

120 seconds

(650-m tape) from BOW

 

 

 

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