HP E Series - Library Environmental Specifications; HP Storageworks Ultrium Tape Drive Comparisons

104 Specifications and characteristics
Table 26 Library environmental specifications
Item Measurements
Operating Storage Transporting
Temperature +10 to +35ºC
(+50 to +95ºF)
+10 to +40ºC
(+50 to +104ºF)
-40 to +60ºC
(-40 to +140ºF)
Humidity 20 to 80% 10 to 95% 10 to 95%
Web bulb (maximum,
noncondensing)
+29.2ºC
(+84.5ºF)
+35ºC
(+95ºF)
+35ºC
(+95ºF)
Altitude 76 to 4,500 m (-250 to 15,000 ft)
Table 27 Acoustics
Item Operating Idle
Sound power 7.5 Bels (A) 7.5 Bels (A)
Sound pressure
Bystander position
7.5 Bels (A)
(60 dB)
7.5 B els ( A)
Table 28 HP StorageWorks Ultrium tape drive comparisons
Characteristic Ultrium 460 Ultrium 960
Capacity (native) 200 GB 400 GB
Transfer rate (native) Up to 30 MB/sec Up to 80 MB/sec
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Data rate matching 10–30 MB/sec 27–80 MB/sec
Host interfaces 2 Gb FC 2 Gb FC
Head channels 8 16
Bit density 7.86 kbpi 10.2 kbpi
Number of tracks 512 704
Media length 609 m 680 m
WORM media support No Yes
Media compatibility
Read
Write
Ultrium Generation 1, 2
Ultrium Generation 1, 2
Ultrium Generation 1, 2, 3
Ultrium Generation 2, 3
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HP classifies the performance of the HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960 as 80 x 1000 x 1000 bytes per second—80 MB/sec
(that is, to base 10) in common with most other disk and tape drive vendors. Most applications, however, measure
performance as 1024 x 1024 bytes per second.