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The StorageTek® enterprise-class, access-centric T9840C tape drive is a critical component of a company-wide, tiered approach to storage that helps you achieve the cost-saving efficiencies associated with information lifecycle management. It can reduce your total cost of ownership by enabling you to align the value of your data with the cost of protecting it.

And when you integrate the T9840C with StorageTek’s VolSafe® secure media technology, you will have a cost-effective archiving solution that helps you meet the most stringent electronic storage regulatory and legal requirements, including those of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Business Benefits 
   The T9840 family of tape drives helps you save money and increase operating efficiencies. With its industry-leading access time for tape, the T9840C provides an excellent alternative to expensive disk for offline applications and less frequently accessed data.
   The T9840C protects your IT dollars. It enables you to cost-effectively adopt and mix new technologies as your storage needs change.
   With a StorageTek library, T9840C tape drives and VolSafe technology, you have a solution that has been used successfully by customers worldwide to help them meet regulatory and compliance requirements.

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Related Documents
Product CollateralTechnical Information
T9840C tape drive offering collateral (pdf 204K Jan 2005)
T9840C tape drive reliability - technical brief
T9840C FICON tape drive performance - technical brief (pdf 1MB Apr 2005)
T-Series tape drive technology roadmap - technical brief (pdf 165K June 2004)
Open Systems tape drive performance
Compatibility matrix for tape libraries and drives (pdf 1.3MB Mar 2005)
 
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Features and IT BenefitsTop

Improve availability and reliability
Like all StorageTek enterprise-class T-series tape drives, the T9840C is designed exclusively for high duty cycles in automation environments. It delivers exceptional reliability in even the harshest operating conditions.

Enhance data accessibility
The T9840’s industry-leading average data access time of 12 seconds gives your users quick access to their data when they need it. It also helps you meet your service level requirements at a lower TCO.

Simplify storage management
The T9840 family of drives reduces complexity by allowing you to manage data for multiple platforms and applications from a central location. You have interface flexibility with native Fibre Channel, ESCON and FICON connectivity options. And simultaneous vaulting at remote sites increases your business continuity options.

Increase IT productivity
The T9840C boosts data transfer speeds across the enterprise, shortening batch times in mainframe environments and reducing backup windows in open systems environments. You can protect more data in less time and still provide your users with quick access to information.

Leverage your existing IT infrastructure
Currently using StorageTek T9840 drives? You can simply reformat existing cartridges to store higher capacities and apply your media budget to the purchase of other storage assets.

Facilitate compliance with regulatory demands
The T9840 tape drive family supports StorageTek’s VolSafe media cartridges, the industry’s premier non-erasable, non-rewriteable, tape-based write once read many (WORM) storage solution. Once your information is written to tape, additional information can then be added or read as often as needed, but never changed, modified or deleted.

 
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Pricing varies depending on configuration and selected options. Product pricing does not include associated implementation service costs. Contact the "How to buy" help desk at 1-800-275-4785 (01-303-673-2800) for more information.

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T9840A tape drive frontT9840B tape drive frontT9840C tape drive front

 
SpecificationsTop
Performance
Access time*T9840AT9840BT9840C
Tape load and thread to ready:4 sec (formatted)
4 sec (formatted)
4 sec (formatted)
Average file access time (first file):8 sec
8 sec
8 sec
Average access time :12 sec
12 sec
12 sec
Maximum/average rewind time:16/8 sec
16/8 sec
16/8 sec
Unload time:4 sec
4 sec
4 sec
Data transfer rate, native (uncompressed):10 MB/sec
19 MB/sec
30 MB/sec
Data transfer rate (compressed):35 MB/sec
70 MB/sec
70 MB/sec
* The actions of the tape drive can be divided into four distinct phases:


Phase 1: Load time – the amount of time required to insert a cartridge in the drive, load the tape and prepare to read, write or search.:


Phase 2: Average file access time – the amount of time required to search from the beginning of the tape to the mid-point; does not include load time.:


Phase 3: Maximum rewind time – the amount of time required to rewind the tape from the end to the beginning of the tape. :


Phase 4: Unload time – the amount of time required to eject the cartridge from the drive.:


The average rewind time is the time to rewind a tape from the mid-point to the beginning or one-half of the maximum rewind time.:


Capacity
 T9840AT9840BT9840C
Capacity, native (uncompressed):20 GB
20 GB
40 GB
Availability
Mean time between failures (MTBF)T9840AT9840BT9840C
Power on:290,000 hr @ 100% duty cycle
290,000 hr @ 100% duty cycle
290,000 hr @ 100% duty cycle
Tape load:240,000 hr @ 10 loads/day (100,000 loads)
240,000 hr @ 10 loads/day (100,000 loads)
240,000 hr @ 10 loads/day (100,000 loads)
Tape path motion (TPM):216,000 hr @ 70% TPM duty cycle
216,000 hr @ 70% TPM duty cycle
216,000 hr @ 70% TPM duty cycle
Head life:8.5 yr @ 70% TPM duty cycle
8.5 yr @ 70% TPM duty cycle
8.5 yr @ 70% TPM duty cycle
Uncorrected bit error rate:1x10(-18)
1x10(-18)
1x10(-18)
Undetected bit error rate:1x10(-33)
x10(-33)
1x10(-33)
Compatibility
 T9840AT9840BT9840C
Interface:1 Gb Fibre Channel, Ultra-SCSI HVD (40 MB/sec), ESCON 20 MB/sec (maximum)
2 Gb Fibre Channel, ESCON, ESCON for VSM, 2 Gb FICON for FICON and FICON Express channels
2 Gb Fibre Channel, ESCON, ESCON for VSM, 2 Gb FICON for FICON and FICON Express channels
Burst transfer rate:HVD (40 MB/sec),
Channel rate (Fibre Channel):100 MB/sec (maximum instantaneous)
200 MB/sec (maximum instantaneous)
200 MB/sec (maximum instantaneous)
Interface (Fibre Channel):
N & NL port, FC-PLDA (Hard and soft AL-PA capability), FC-AL-2 FCP-2, FC-TAPE
N & NL port, FC-PLDA (Hard and soft AL-PA capability), FC-AL-2 FCP-2, FC-TAPE
Read/write compatibility interface:Proprietary format
Proprietary format
Proprietary format
Emulation modes:Native, 3490E, 3590
Native, 3490E, 3590
Native, T9840B, 3490E, 3590
Mechanical
 T9840AT9840BT9840C
Height:5.25 in
5.25 in
5.25 in
Depth:15.0 in
15.0 in
15.0 in
Environmental
TemperatureT9840AT9840BT9840C
Temperature (operating):+59° to +90° F (+15° to +32° C)
+59° to +90° F (+15° to +32° C)
+59° to +90° F (+15° to +32° C)
Temperature (non-operating):+50° to +104° F (+10° to +40° C )
+50° to +104° F (+10° to +40° C )
+50° to +104° F (+10° to +40° C )
HumidityT9840AT9840BT9840C
Relative humidity (operating):20%-80%
20%-80%
20%-80%
Relative humidity (non-operating):10%-95%
10%-95%
10%-95%
Power
 T9840AT9840BT9840C
Voltage:100-240 VAC @ 50-60 Hz
100-240 VAC @ 50-60 Hz
100-240 VAC @ 50-60 Hz
Power consumption/dissipation (operating maximum continuous - not peak):82 VA / 280 BTU/hr
82 VA / 280 BTU/hr
82 VA / 280 BTU/hr
 
 

 
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