Specifications
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TABLE 1-5 T10000D Tape Drive Performance Specifications
Characteristic Specification
Capacity and Performance
T10000D Capacity, native 8 TB (8 X 10
12
bytes)
T10000D Sport Cartridge, native 1.6 TB
Data buffer size 2 GB
Tape speeds:
Read and write 2.75, 3.25, 3.75, 4.25, 4.75 m/s
File search and locates 13 m/s
High speed rewind 13 m/s
Interfaces
Types 16FC = 4, 8, 16 Gb Fibre Channel and FICON
Support 4Gb = N_Port and NL_Port
8Gb = N_Port and NL_Port
16Gb = N_Port only
Native sustained data rate
(uncompressed) up to
254 MB/s
Compressed up to 16FC = 818 MB/s
Burst transfer rate up to
Channel rate (Fibre Channel)
Emulation Modes FICON 3592 (MVS) and 3490 (VSM)
Access times
Tape load and thread to ready 13 s
File access (includes loading) 50 s
Rewind (maximum) 97 s with Standard cartridge
26 s with Sport cartridge
Unload time 23 s