L700 (CTL700) Installation and User's Guide (G06.28+, H06.04+, J06.03+)

Tape Drives in the CTL700 Tape Library
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Performance of the Tape Drive
Performance of the Tape Drive
The N1530A, CT9841FC-1, M8503, and M8608A tape drives store and share
information reliably and quickly. They offer the speed, capacity, and access demanded
by today’s storage-intensive applications and active users. Mainframe-class reliability
allows continuous and confident operation. Utilize space more efficiently by attaching
more drives to a new or existing library.
The subsystems have these characteristics:
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Faster backup and restore operations
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Store more data
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Flexible
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Mix combination of additional drives to new or existing libraries
Robotic Cartridge Loader
The tape library holds from 168 to 630 tape cartridges. The robot contained in the
CTL700 tape library is responsible for loading and unloading the tape cartridges into
the tape drives as tapes are requested by the system.
Tape Drive Storage Capacity
N1530A Up to 800 gigabytes (GB) on an Ultirum 3 data cartridge
M8608A Up to 1.6 terabytes (TB) on an Ultrium 4 tape cartridge
CT9841FC-1 Up to 120 gigabytes (GB) on a 9840 data cartridge
M8503 Up to 800 gigabytes on (GB) on an Ultrium 3 cartridge