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StorageTek® leads the
industry in tape drive options, offering the gamut of
enterprise-class tape technologies to meet every need.
You can even mix and match tape drives in our tape
libraries to align your storage needs to your data. All
of our tape drives are easy to install, manage and
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Product |
Capacity, native
(uncompressed) |
Interface |
Average file access
time |
Data transfer rate,
native (uncompressed) |
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T-Series tape drives |
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T9940B tape drive |
200 GB |
2 Gb Fibre Channel,
ESCON for VSM |
41 sec |
30 MB/sec |
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T9940A tape drive |
60 GB |
1 Gb Fibre Channel,
Ultra-SCSI HVD (40 MB/sec), ESCON 20 MB/sec
(maximum) |
41 sec |
10 MB/sec |
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T9840C tape drive |
40 GB |
2 Gb Fibre Channel,
ESCON, ESCON for VSM,
2 Gb FICON for FICON and FICON Express channels |
8 sec |
30 MB/sec |
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T9840B tape drive |
20 GB |
2 Gb Fibre Channel,
ESCON, ESCON for VSM,
2 Gb FICON for FICON and FICON Express channels |
8 sec |
19 MB/sec |
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T9840A tape drive |
20 GB |
1 Gb Fibre Channel,
Ultra-SCSI HVD (40 MB/sec), ESCON 20 MB/sec
(maximum) |
8 sec |
10 MB/sec |
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LTO
Ultrium series tape drives |
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LTO
Ultrium generation 2 tape drive |
200 GB |
Single port Ultra 3
SCSI
Single port (4), dual port (5), shortwave,
multi-mode optical Fibre Channel port, LC duplex
connector |
52 sec |
30 MB/sec |
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LTO
Ultrium generation 1 tape drive |
100 GB |
Single port Ultra 2
SCSI, 68 pin female connector
Single port, shortwave, multi-mode optical Fibre
Channel port |
71 sec |
15 MB/sec |
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SDLT
and DLT series tape drives |
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SDLT
320 tape drive |
160 GB |
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70 sec |
16MB/sec |
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DLT8000 tape drive |
40 GB |
Single port Ultra 2
SCSI, 68 pin female connector
Single port, shortwave, multi-mode optical Fibre
Channel port
SC duplex connector |
71 sec |
6 MB/sec |
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T-Series benefits
- Fast data
access
T9840 tape drives give you a cost-efficient
alternative to disk, with high data throughput and
fast access to data in an average of just 12 seconds.
- High
capacity
T9940 tape drives provide a high capacity option for
enterprise-class storage, with up to 200 gigabytes of
native data on a single tape cartridge.
- Extreme
durability
T-Series tape drives are designed for continuous high
duty cycle use, ideal for enterprise-critical, high
availability applications.
- VolSafe®
secure media
T-Series tape drives support VolSafe cartridges, a
high-capacity write-once-read-many (WORM) storage
solution. VolSafe is a non-erasable, non-rewritable
tape media for archiving critical data.
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LTO
Ultrium series benefits
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Cost-effective capacity
With the ability to store up to 200 gigabytes of
native data on a single cartridge, you can reduce your
media costs and tape counts while accommodating data
growth.
- Exceptional
performance
Capabilities such as dynamic rate matching and dual
mode compression enhance tape drive performance and
product life.
- Drive
choices
StorageTek offers and supports LTO tape drives from
HP, IBM and Seagate. This range of choices enables you
to pick the ideal drive for your environment.
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SDLT
and DLT series benefits
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Cost-effective capacity
With capacities up to 160 gigabytes per cartridge,
StorageTek’s SLDT 320 drive enables you to store more
data with fewer storage resources and at a lower cost.
- Enhanced
data protection
StorageTek’s SDLT and DLT drives have a mean time
between failures (MTBF) rating of 250,000 hours at 100
percent duty cycle.
- Investment
protection
StorageTek’s SDLT and DLT tape drives help you extend
the value of your storage investments via optional
backward-read compatibility with DLT 4000, DLT 7000
and DLT 8000 drives.
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