Speed Matching; Library Drive Sled Without Esd Springs (Scsi Sled Shown); Library Drive Sled With Esd Springs [1] (Sas Sled Shown) - IBM TS3100 Setup, Operator, And Service Manual

Figure 1-6. Library drive sled without ESD springs (SCSI sled shown)
Figure 1-7. Library drive sled with ESD springs [1] (SAS sled shown)

Speed Matching

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Note: Ultrium 3 and 4 SCSI, SAS, and Fibre Channel drives are allowed in the
same physical and logical library.
To improve system performance, the Ultrium 3, Ultrium 4, Ultrium 5, and Ultrium
6 Tape Drives use a technique called speed matching to dynamically adjust its native
(uncompressed) data rate to the slower data rate of the attached server.
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Chapter 1. Product Description
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