Drive Performance; Performance Specifications Of The Ultrium Tape - IBM TS3500 Introduction And Planning Manual
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Table 22. Performance specifications of the Ultrium tape drives
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This topic gives performance data for Ultrium and 3592 tape drives.
Table 22 provides drive performance of the Ultrium tape drives with different
media. Table 23 on page 80 provides drive performance of the 3592 tape drives.
Table 24 on page 81 provides additional information for 3592 media.
Ultrium 6
Ultrium 5
160 MB/s
N/A
(L6 media)
140 MB/s
140 MB/s
(L5 media)
(L5 media)
120 MB/s
120 MB/s
(L4 media)
(L4 media)
80 MB/s
N/A
(L3 media)
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
400 MB/s
N/A
(L6 media)
280 MB/s
280 MB/s
(L5 media)
(L5 media)
240 MB/s
240 MB/s
(L4 media)
(L4 media)
160 MB/s
N/A
(L3 media)
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
745 MB/s
745 MB/s
800 MB/s
800 MB/s
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
12 seconds
Tape Drive
Ultrium 4
Ultrium 3
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
120 MB/s
N/A
(L4 media)
80 MB/s
80 MB/s
2
(L3 media)
(L3 media)
35 MB/s
35 MB/s
(L2 media)
(L2 media)
20 MB/s
N/A
(L1 media)
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
240 MB/s
N/A
(L4 media)
160 MB/s
160 MB/s
2
(L3 media)
(L3 media)
70 MB/s
70 MB/s
(L2 media)
(L2 media)
40 MB/s
N/A
(L1 media)
340 MB/s
(read)
175 MB/s
350 MB/s
(write)
400 MB/s
400 MB/s
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ultrium 2
Ultrium 1
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
35 MB/s
N/A
(L2 media)
20 MB/s
15 MB/s
(L1 media)
(L1 media)
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
70 MB/s
N/A
(L2 media)
40 MB/s
30 MB/s
(L1 media)
(L1 media)
110 MB/s
60 MB/s
200 MB/s
100 MB/s
160 MB/s
80 MB/s
(Ultra160)
(Ultra2)
40 MB/s
40 MB/s
(Ultra)
(Ultra)
15 seconds
20 seconds
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