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IBM TotalStorage Ultrium Tape Drives T400 and T400F

Excellent storage capacity and reliable data backup and recovery for midrange and enterprise servers

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Characteristics
Tape drive type LTO Ultrium 2
Physical capacity per cartridge 400 GB1; 200 GB native
Sustained data transfer rate Up to 70 MB/second1; 30 MB/second native
Aggregate data transfer rate Up to 247 GB/hour1
Number of tracks 512
Media LTO Ultrium 1 and 2
Data cartridge LTO Ultrium 1: Part number 08L9120
LTO Ultrium 2: Part number 08L9870
Universal cleaning cartridge For both LTO Ultrium 1 and Ultrium 2: Part number 35L2086
Backward compatibility Read/write compatible with Ultrium 1
Interface T400: Ultra-160 SCSI LVD
T400F: FC-2 at 1 Gbps or 2 Gbps
Data compression SLDC (LTO data compression per ECMA-321)2
Rewind speed Up to 8 meters/second
Operating speed Up to 6.22 meters/second
Data rate matching Digital speed matching (DSM) from 17.5 MB/second to 35 MB/second
Maximum locate speed 8 meters/sec
Average file access 49 seconds
Load to BOT 15 seconds
Unload from BOT 15 seconds
Average rewind time 49 seconds (average Ultrium 2 cartridge)
Reliability
MTBF (hours) 250,000 @ 100% duty cycle
Error rate (calculated) 1 x 1017 bytes per permanent read error*
Error rate (validated) 1 x 1014 bytes per permanent read error*
1 x 1013 bytes per permanent write error*
Physical characteristics
Dimensions (internal drive) 3.33" H x 5.83" W x 8.33" D (8.5cm x 14.9cm x 21.1cm)
Weight 6.6 lb. (3.0 kg)
Operating environment
Operating temperature 50° to 104° F (10° to 40° C)
Relative humidity 20% to 80% (non-condensing)
Electrical power T400: 5 V at 3.1 A, 12 V at 1.1 A (steady state)
T400F: 5 V at 3.7 A, 12 V at 1.1 A (steady state)
Power dissipation T400: 13 W (idle-cartridge), 29 W (read/write), 9 W (sleep-no cartridge)
T400F: 16 W (idle-cartridge), 32 W (read/write), 12 W (sleep-no cartridge)3
Supported systems Microsoft® Windows® NT® 4.0 with Service Pack 6.0, Microsoft Windows 2000; Sun® Solaris; HP-UX; Linux® (Intel® processor-based servers); AIX® Version 4.3.3, 5.1, 5.2 and Novell NetWare
Warranty Three-year mail-in exchange

1 Assuming 2:1 compressible data.

2 Prior to the release of ECMA-321, SLDC (streaming lossless data compression) was known as “LTO-DC.” SLDC uses ALDC as its primary data compression scheme, but also has a pass-thru scheme to avoid the expansion of incompressible data—a problem ALDC and most other compression algorithms encounter.

3 Depending upon configuration.

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