DLT VS80 Tape Drive Installation and Operations Guide

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CHAPTER 2
Chapter 2Product Information
This chapter introduces the DLT VS80 tape drive and provides a general overview of the product.
2.1 DLT VS80 Tape Drive Overview
Your Quantum DLT VS80 tape drive is a value-priced, high-reliability, high-capacity linear streaming
data cartridge tape drive designed for use on entry- to mid-range computing platforms. With a
combination of data compression and compaction, your DLT VS80 tape drive offers a data cartridge
capacity of 80 gigabytes (GB) (assuming a 2:1 compression ratio), and a sustained user data transfer
rate of 6 megabytes (MB) per second (assuming a 2:1 compression ratio).
The DLT VS80 tape drive is a 5¼-inch, half-height form-factor device that uses ½-inch tape. Its design
includes a dual channel read/write head, Lempel-Ziv (DLZ) high-efficiency data compression, and a
tape-mark directory to achieve fast data throughput and data access times.
2.2 DLT VS80 Tape Drive Features
2.2.1 Data Transfer Rate
The tape drive’s native (uncompressed) data transfer rate is 3.0 MB per second. With 2:1 data
compression, the data transfer rate increases to as much as 6.0 MB per second.