Appendix D — Specifications Tape Drive and Media Specifications
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LTO -3 D rives
Notes: LTO‐3drivesarenotsupportedinT950Blibraries.
LTO‐3drivearenolongeravailableforpurchase.
LTO -2 D rives
Notes: LTO‐2drivesarenotsupportedinT950Blibraries.
LTO‐2drivesarenolongeravailableforpurchase.
Parameter Specification
Sustainedtransferrate
a,b
a. Compression throughput depends on the type of data.
b. This is a per-drive value.
80MB/secondnative
160MB/secondcompressed
Averagefileaccesstime 54seconds
Encryptioncapability No
WORMcapability Yes
MTBF 250,000hoursat100%dutycycle
Uncorrectederrorrate 1x10
–17
bits
Powerconsumption
b
Read/write:28wattstypical
Idle:15watts
Parameter Specification
Sustainedtransferrate
a,b
a. Compression throughput depends on the type of data.
b. This is a per-drive value.
35MB/secondnative
70MB/secondcompressed
Averagefileaccesstime 65seconds
Encryptioncapability No
WORMcapability No
MTBF 250,000hoursat100%dutycycle
Uncorrectederrorrate 1x10
–17
bits
Powerconsumption
b
Read/write:29wattstypical