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Chapter 1 Introduction

Tape Drive Components

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Applications The DAT 160 is ideal for workstation, server, and network/enterprise

applications. These applications include, but are not limited to:

• Backup of high-capacity fixed discs

• 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 160 tape capacity is as follows:

•Tape length: 155 meters

• Native capacity: 80 Gbytes

• Compressed capacity: 160 Gbytes, assumes 2.1 compression

• Native transfer rate: 6.9 Mbytes/sec

Table 1 Power Requirements

Tape Drive Components 1

Figure 2 illustrates the major components of the tape drives.

Voltage Typical Current Maximum Current

5V 1.54 A 1.61 A

12V 0.26 A 1.3 A

1 2 ... 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 ... 81 82

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