Specifications
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Specifications
This section lists the physical, environmental, and performance specifications for the
T10000 tape drive.
TABLE 1-3 T10000A and T10000B Tape Drive Performance Specifications
Characteristic Specification
Capacity and Performance
T10000A Capacity, native 500 GB (5 x 10
11
bytes)
T10000A Sport Cartridge, native 120 GB
T10000B Capacity, native 1 TB (1 x 10
12
bytes)
T10000B Sport Cartridge, native 240 GB
Data buffer size 256 MB
Tape speeds:
Read and write 2.0 and 4.95 m/s
File search and locates 8.0 m/s
High speed rewind 9.5 m/s
Interfaces
Types 2FC = 1, 2 Gb Fibre Channel and FICON
4FC = 1, 2, 4 Gb Fibre Channel and FICON
Support 2FC = N_Port and NL_Port
4FC = N_Port only
Data rate (uncompressed) 120 MB/s
Compressed (maximum) 2FC = 180 MB/s
4FC = 360 MB/s
Burst transfer rate 2FC = 200 MB/s
4FC = 400 MB/s
Channel rate (Fibre Channel) 2FC = 1.0625 and 2.125 Gb/s
4FC = 1.0625, 2.125, and 4.250 Gb/s
Emulation Modes 3592 (MVS) and 3490 (VSM)
Access times
Tape load and thread to ready 16 s
File access (includes loading) 62 s
Rewind (maximum) 91 s
23 s with the Sport cartridge
Unload time 23 s
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