Sun Microsystems SL8500 manual StorageTek T-Series Tape Drives, 2Supported Drives

Drive and Electronics Module

The following table lists the supported vendors, drives types, and interfaces.

TABLE 1-2Supported Drives

Vendor	Drive Type	Host Interface Type
	T9840A	Fibre Channel, ESCON
StorageTek	T9840B	Fibre Channel, FICON, ESCON
	T9840C	Fibre Channel, FICON, ESCON
	T9940B	Fibre Channel, VSM ESCON
	T10000	Fibre Channel
HP	Linear Tape-Open (LTO 2, 3)	Fibre Channel
IBM	Linear Tape-Open (LTO 2, 3)	Fibre Channel
Quantum	Linear Tape-Open (LTO 3)	Fibre Channel
Quantum	Super DLT (SDLT600)	Fibre Channel

StorageTek T-Series Tape Drives

The StorageTek T-Series tape drives are small, modular, high-performance drives designed for both the enterprise and client-server environments.

T9x40

StorageTek’s T9x40 tape drives are high-performance drives designed for enterprise and client-server environments. There are two models available:

T9840 The access-centric T9840 tape drive is ideal for applications that demand high data throughput and fast recall. These drives give you access to data at an average of 8 seconds, store up to 40 GB, with transfer rates of up to 30 MB/s.

The SL8500 supports all three models of the T9840 (A, B, and C).

T9940 The T9940 tape drives are designed for high-capacity storage applications. They use a single reel cartridge tape for higher capacities of up to 200 GB with transfer rates of up to 30 MB/s.

Note: The T9940A tape drive is not supported.

T10000

StorageTek’s T10000 are high-capacity, high-performance tape drives. These drives use a single reel data cartridge with a native storage capacity of up to 500 GB (native) and transfer rates of up to 120 MB/s. These new tape drives are designed to take advantage of the new speeds in storage area networks (SANs)—4 Gb/s.

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