About The Viper 200; Features And Benefits - Seagate STU62001LW Viper Product Manual

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Four generations of storage solutions

About the Viper 200

Features and benefits

The Ultrium format of LTO technology defines a four-generation technology
roadmap, which provides aggressive, attainable specifications based on the current
technologies in use today.
Generation 1
Capacity 200 Gbytes
Speed Up to 40
Mbytes/sec
Media MP
Encoding RLL 1,7
Note 1. Capacity and speed based on 2:1 data compression
Note 2. Seagate, Hewlett-Packard and IBM reserve the right to change the
information in this migration path without notice.
The Viper 200 is a high-performance eight-channel LTO tape drive that uses ½-inch
Ultrium tape cartridges with a native capacity of up to 100 Gbytes (for a 609m tape).
It supports Read While Write (RWW) and intelligent hardware data compression as
well as cartridge soft load. The drive's native sustained user data transfer rate is 16
Mbytes per second. The tape capacity and transfer rate are maximized through the
use of intelligent data compression. The Viper 200 design is well suited for mid-range
to high-end servers, mainframe systems, and tape library automation systems.
The Viper 200 comes with an ULTRA SCSI LVD or HVD interface, as well as a serial
library interface. The internal Viper 200 drives (STU42001LW and STU42001WD)
are designed to fit in a 5¼-inch full-height drive bay. The external drives
(STU62001LW and STU62001WD) are standalone subsystems with built-in power
supplies. The table below shows the model numbers for the different drive
configurations.
Model STU42001LW
Mounting Internal
Interface LVD
The following table summarizes the features and benefits of the Viper 200 drives.
Features
Performance
32 Mbyte-per-second compressed
transfer rate
FastSense™
Viper 200 LTO Product Manual
Generation 2 Generation 2
400 Gbytes 800 Gbytes
Up to 80 Up to 160
Mbytes/sec Mbytes/sec
MP MP
PRML PRML
STU42001WD STU62001LW
Internal External
HVD LVD
Benefits
Highest announced rate, over 115 Gbytes per hour
compressed
Optimization of data transfers resulting in shorter
Generation 4
1,600 Gbytes
To 320
Mbytes/sec
Thin Film
PRML
STU62001WD
External
HVD