Drive-performance specifications
The following table lists the performance specifications for the tape drive.
Drive Performance:
Drive Performance:
Feature
Specification
Feature
Specification
Capacity
2 GB, 900 Oe
8
400 feet 1/4-inch cartridge
- QIC 3095 format
4 GB, 900 Oe 740 feet Travan cartridge -
QIC 3095 format
10 GB, 900 Oe 740 feet Travan Cartridge
- QIC 3220 format
(All capacities increased, typically by two,
using software data compression)
Recording unrecoverable
errors
Less than 1 in 10
data Mb
Head configuration
Wide write/narrow read
Recording media
900 Oe 400 feet 1/4-inch
900 Oe 740 feet Travan
Cartridge size
3.2 in. x 2.4 in. x 0.4 in.
(81 mm x 61 mm x 10.2 mm)
Effective back-up rate
30 MB per minute typical (uncompressed)
Data density
60 000 bpi
Data transfer rate
489/733/1000 KB per second
Tracks
60 on 1/4-inch media
77 on QIC Wide media
Tape speed for Read/Write
and Search/Rewind
46, 70, or 94 ips
Synchronous transfer rate
(burst)
5 MB per second maximum
Recording method
Serpentine
Recording format
QIC 3220MC
Asynchronous transfer rate
(burst)
5 MB per second maximum
Recording code
1,7 RLL
Error recovery
Reed Solomon ECC
8
Oersted (Oe)
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