HP LTO Ultrium User Manual

2 Electrical and environmental requirements
Electrical fit
Power requirements
NOTE:
SAS drives do not have a regular 4-pin power connector and should be powered through the SAS
connector.
The following are the PSU requirements for FC and SAS full-height and half-height drives:
Maximum CurrentTypical CurrentVoltage
<3.7A3.6A5V
<3.0A0.50A12V
See also details in Chapter 2, “Electrical Requirements” in Specifications, Volume 4 of the HP LTO
Ultrium Technical Reference Manual.
The drive is specified to operate at 5V 5% and 12V 10%.
Voltage and current requirements
Voltage and current requirement are as follows:
Full-height drives
SAS DrivesFC Drives
12V5V12V5VSpecification
13.2V5.25V13.2V5.25VMax voltage
10.8V4.75V10.8V4.75VMin voltage
0.60A3.57A0.62A3.54AMax steady-state current
2.03A3.58A2.03A3.57AMax transient current
7.15W17.83W7.44W17.70WMax steady-state power
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HP LTO Ultrium Specifications

General

Category	Tape Drive
Capacity (Compressed)	Up to 30 TB (LTO-8), Up to 45 TB (LTO-9)
Transfer Rate (Compressed)	Up to 900 MB/s (LTO-8), Up to 1000 MB/s (LTO-9)
Interface	SAS, Fibre Channel
Technology	Linear Tape-Open (LTO)
WORM Support	Yes
Encryption Support	Yes (AES 256-bit)
Partitioning Support	Yes
Capacity (Native)	Up to 12 TB (LTO-8), Up to 18 TB (LTO-9)
Transfer Rate (Native)	Up to 360 MB/s (LTO-8), Up to 400 MB/s (LTO-9)
Backward Read Compatibility	Yes (LTO-8 reads LTO-7, LTO-6; LTO-9 reads LTO-8, LTO-7)
Backward Write Compatibility	Yes (LTO-8 writes to LTO-7; LTO-9 writes to LTO-8)