Dell PowerVault LTO User Manual page 9

Table 1. Drive information and performance specification (continued)
Generation LTO 9
Native data
300 Mb/s (L9)
rate
300 Mb/s (L8)
Sustained data
FC
rate (L6, L7, L8
700 Mb/s (L9)
and L9
700 Mb/s (L8)
compressed at
2.5:1
SAS
compression;
720 Mb/s (L9)
L5 and earlier
720 Mb/s (L8)
compressed at
2:1compressio
n)
Burst data rate
800 Mb/s FC
1200 Mb/s SAS
Nominal load- 16 seconds
to-ready time
-Initialized tape 16 seconds
-Uninitialized 40-132
2
tape minutes
Nominal 56 seconds
unload time
Average space 65 seconds
record time
from load point
Average 62 seconds
rewind time
(REWIND
command)
Average rewind time (part of UNLOAD command, dependent on mount activity)
Less than 5 Gb 62 seconds
of contiguous
data
transferred
5 Gb to 50 Gb 124 seconds
of contiguous
data
transferred
All other types 186 seconds
of mount
activity
LTO 8 LTO 7
300 Mb/s (L8) 300 Mb/s (L7)
300 Mb/s (M8) 160 Mb/s (L6)
300 Mb/s (L7) 140 Mb/s (L5)
FC FC
700 Mb/s (L8) 700 Mb/s (L7)
700 Mb/s (M8) 400 Mb/s (L6)
700 Mb/s (L7) 280 Mb/s (L5)
SAS SAS
600 Mb/s (L8) 500 Mb/s (L7)
540 Mb/s (M8) 400 Mb/s (L6)
500 Mb/s (L7) 280 Mb/s (L5)
800 Mb/s FC 800 Mb/s FC
600 Mb/s SAS 600 Mb/s SAS
15 seconds 15 seconds
NA NA
NA NA
24 seconds 20 seconds
59 seconds 56 seconds
59 seconds 60 seconds
59 seconds 60 seconds
59 seconds 60 seconds
59 seconds 60 seconds
LTO 6 LTO 5
160 Mb/s (L6) 140 Mb/s (L5)
140 Mb/s (L5) 120 Mb/s (L4)
120 Mb/s (L4) 80 Mb/s (L3)
FC and SAS FC and SAS
400 Mb/s (L6) 280 Mb/s (L5)
280 Mb/s (L5) 240 Mb/s (L4)
240 Mb/s (L4) 160 Mb/s (L3)
800 Mb/s FC 800 Mb/s FC
600 Mb/s SAS 600 Mb/s SAS
12 seconds 12 seconds
NA NA
NA NA
17 seconds 17 seconds
62 seconds 60 seconds
NA NA
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NA NA
NA NA
NA NA
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