User`s guide

Chapter 1 Introduction
Tape Drive Components
3 Quantum DAT 320 User’s Guide
• Data interchange between systems
• Network servers
• Online data collection
• Near-line secondary storage for all types of text, graphics, or
multimedia information
•Archival storage
Capacity and Transfer
Rates
The DAT 320 tape capacity is as follows:
• Tape length:150 meters
• Native capacity:160 Gbytes
• Compressed capacity:320 Gbytes, assumes 2.1 compression
• Native transfer rate:12 Mbytes/sec
Table 1 Power Requirements
Tape Drive Components
Figure 2 illustrates the major components of the tape drives.
Voltage Typical Current Maximum Current
5V .7 A 1.4 A
12V 0.25 A 1.3 A