Drive Performance Specifications - Quantum Tape Drive LTO-3 User Manual

Drive Performance Specifications

Table 8 Drive
Performance
Specifications
Table 8 lists the performance specifications for the LTO-3 Tape Drive.
Specification
Capacity
LTO Ultrium 3 (680 m)
Recording density
Flux density
Track density
Error recovery
Recording unrecoverable errors
Recording undetectable errors
Tape drive type
Head configuration
Recording format
Recording method
Transfer rate (sustained)
Synchronous transfer rate
(burst)
Cartridge unload time
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Value
400 Gbytes (native)
5,120 RLL-encoded ONEs per mm
10249 cells per mm
70 tracks per mm
Read-after-write Reed Solomon
ECC (2 levels)
17
Less than 1 in 10 data bits
27
Less than 1 in 10 data bits
LTO (Ultrium)
2 bumps
16 thin-film write heads per bump
16 MR read heads per bump
2 MR servo heads per bump
Ultrium 16-channel (U-38)
0, 13/11 RLL
68 Mbytes/second (max, native)
160 Mbytes per sec max
30 seconds
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