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Tape Drives

StorageTek® leads the industry in tape drive options, offering the gamut of enterprise-class tape technologies to meet every need. You can even mix and match tape drives in our tape libraries to align your storage needs to your data. All of our tape drives are easy to install, manage and maintain.

Tape Drives comparison
ProductCapacity, native (uncompressed)Average file access time (first file)Data transfer rate, native (uncompressed)
T-Series
T9840A20 GB
8 sec
10 MB/sec
T9840B20 GB
8 sec
19 MB/sec
T9840C40 GB
8 sec
30 MB/sec
T9940A60 GB
41 sec
10 MB/sec
T9940B200 GB
41 sec
30 MB/sec
LTO Ultrium
LTO Gen 1100 GB
86-96 sec
15–16 MB/sec
LTO Gen 2200 GB
64 –75 sec
32–35 MB/sec
LTO Gen 3400 GB
72 sec
80 MB/sec
SDLT
SDLT 320160 GB
82 sec
16 MB/sec
SDLT 600300 GB
79 sec
36 MB/sec

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