T9840B Tape Drive – 20GB, 70MB/s (Fibre, ESCON)

T9840B Tape Drive – 20GB, 70MB/s (Fibre, ESCON)

The StorageTek T9840B Tape Ddrive has virtually no speed limit. It is the first tape drive with a native 2 Gb Fibre Channel (FC) interface and the ability to attach directly to leading-edge 2 Gb host bus adapters (HBAs) – all without having to buy a separate interface or sacrifice backward compatibility with 1 Gb FC. This is how you slash backup times in half or transfer twice as much data per second. And as for fast data access, the T9840B tape drive’s mid-point load technology ensures access rates averaging just twelve seconds.

Extending the well-documented reliability of StorageTek tape drives, the T9840B FC tape drive’s dual “IN” ports allow you to attach to two HBAs for standby redundancy. Backward and forward compatibility and StorageTek’s advanced Adaptive Media Technology (AMT) enable you to easily mix media and drives within libraries to improve control, balance performance, save space, reduce costs and better manage information.

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Specifications
Capacity, native	20 GB
Performance, native (uncompressed) (compressed, maximum)	19 MB/sec 70 MB/sec
Tape load and thread to ready	4 sec (formatted)
Average file access time (first file)	8 sec
Average file access time (subsequent file)	11 sec
Maximum/average rewind time	16/8 sec
Unload time	4 sec
Recording format	Linear serpentine
Number of channels	16
Mean time between failures (MTBF)
Power on	290,000 hr @ 100% duty cycle
Tape load	240,000 hr @ 10 loads/day (100,000 loads)
Tape path motion (TPM)	216,000 hr @ 70% duty cycle
Head life	8.5 yr @ 70% TPM duty cycle
Uncorrected bit error rate	1×10-18
Undetected bit error rate	1×10-33
Interface	2 Gigabit (Gb) Fibre Channel Ultra-SCSI HVD (40 MB/sec) ESCON 20 MB/sec (maximum)
Read/write compatibility interface	Proprietary format
Emulation modes	Native, 3490E, 3590
Form factor	5.25 in (full height)
Temperature
Operating	+59° F to +90° F (+15° C to +32° C)
Non-operating	+50° F to +104° F (+10° C to +40° C)
Humidity
Operating	20% to 80%
Non-operating	10% to 95%
Voltage	100-240 VAC @ 50-60 Hz
Power consumption/dissipation	101 VA/345 BTU/hr

Guarantee

All Spectra provided Hitachi Storage Devices are put through a rigorous refurbishment, reconditioning and testing process.

We guarantee our products to be:

• Original equipment manufactured and serial numbered numbered by StorageTek
• Configured to exact user specifications
• Fully refurbished to manufacturers standards of new [ETN]
• All hard drives are 72 hour burn in/Load Tested
• Complete with manufacturers ship group
• Provided with 90 day warranty
• Shipped in a timely manner

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