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Overview
Oracle's StorageTek T9840 tape drive family provides a range of products designed
for fast-access to data stored on a midpoint loading tape cartridge. The drive is either
rack mounted or used in various StorageTek libraries (see
FIGURE
1-1). This chapter
provides an overview of the T9840 Tape Drive family.
There are four drive models for the enterprise and client-server environments. The
T9840A and T9840B drives have a 20 GB uncompressed cartridge capacity. The
T9840C drive has a cartridge capacity of 40 GB (uncompressed). The T9840D
encryption-capable tape drive has a cartridge capacity of 75 GB (uncompressed). See
"Cartridges" on page 23
for more tape cartridge information, and see
TABLE 1-2
on page 24
for the cartridge read/write compatibility.
FIGURE 1-1 Example Drive Configurations
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