Specifications
26 T10000: Interface Reference Manual August 2016
TABLE 1-4 T10000C Tape Drive Performance Specifications
Characteristic Specification
Capacity and Performance
T10000C Capacity, native 5 TB (5 X 10
12
bytes)
T10000C Sport Cartridge, native 1 TB
Data buffer size 2 GB
Tape speeds:
Read and write 3.7 and 5.6 m/s
File search and locates 13 m/s
High speed rewind 13 m/s
Interfaces
Types 4FC = 1, 2, 4 Gb Fibre Channel and FICON
Support 4FC = N_Port and NL_Port
Data rate (uncompressed) 240 MB/s
Compressed 4FC = 360 MB/s
Burst transfer rate 4FC = 400 MB/s
Channel rate (Fibre Channel) 4FC = 1.0625, 2.125, and 4.250 Gb/s
Emulation Modes 3592 (MVS) and 3490 (VSM)
Access times
Tape load and thread to ready 16 s
File access (includes loading) 57 s
Rewind (maximum) 115 s
32.5 s with the Sport cartridge
Unload time 23 s