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10 Viper 200 LTO Product Manual
Drive performance specifications
The following table lists the performance specifications for the Viper 200 drives,
Ultra2 SCSI LVD, Ultra SCSI HVD and Fibre Channel.
Specification Value
Capacity
Ultrium type A (609 m)
Ultrium type B (319 m)
Ultrium type C (203 m)
Ultrium type D (87 m)
100 Gbytes (native)
50 Gbytes (native)
30 Gbytes (native)
10 Gbytes (native)
Recording density 3,660 RLL-encoded ONEs per mm
Flux density 3,660 flux transitions per mm
Track density 3 tracks per mm
Error recovery Read-after-write
Reed Solomon ECC (2 levels)
Recording unrecoverable errors < 1 in 10
17
data bits
Recording undetectable errors < 1 in 10
27
data bits
Tape drive type LTO (Ultrium)
Head configuration 16 thin-film write heads
16 MR read heads
8 MR servo heads
During operation 8 write heads, 8 read
heads and 2 servo heads are active at the
same time.
Recording format Ultrium 8-channel (U-18)
Recording method (1,7) RLL
Transfer rate (sustained) 16.137 Mbytes/second (max, native)
Synchronous transfer rate (burst) 80 Mbytes per sec max
Asynchronous transfer rate (burst) 40 Mbytes per sec max
Cartridge load and tape thread time <10 seconds
Cartridge unload time 3 seconds
Average rewind time (609-m tape) < 76 seconds
Maximum rewind time (609-m tape) 152 seconds
Average data access time (609-m tape) < 76 seconds
Maximum data access time (609-m tape) 152 seconds
Average rewind time (609-m tape) < 76 seconds
Maximum rewind time (609-m tape) 152 seconds
Tape speed up to 4 meters per second