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StorageTek’s T9940B enterprise-class tape drive helps you cost-effectively protect and archive your mission-critical data and support your disaster recovery applications. You can reduce your total cost of ownership by storing data on high-performance, capacity-centric tape instead of higher-cost disk or less-efficient tape. And the T9940 is built for reliability, so you can be confident that your data will be there when you need it.

Enabling regulatory compliance is also easy with the T9940B drive. It supports VolSafe® secure media technology, the industry’s leading WORM-based tape storage solution.

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Business Benefits 
   The T9940B can support top-line business growth by affordably and reliably storing greater amounts of historical data for critical business applications, such as customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning and business intelligence.
   Designing an enterprise disaster recovery process becomes much easier with the high-performance T9940B drive. Data can be simultaneously vaulted to remote sites for recovery in case of disaster.

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Related Documents
Product CollateralTechnical Information
T9940B tape drives offering collateral (pdf 156K May 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

Reduce complexity and simplify SAN management
The T9940B simplifies storage management and integrates easily with existing mainframe and open systems platforms and applications. It supports multi-platform connectivity, including native FICON, ESCON and Fibre Channel.

Increase productivity
The high-capacity T9940B tape drive minimizes cartridge mounts, requires fewer cartridges to manage for disaster recovery and improves automation efficiency. It helps you store more data in less time and meet your shrinking batch and backup windows.

Improve availability and reliability
Like all StorageTek® enterprise-class T-series tape drives, the T9940B is designed exclusively for high duty cycles in automation environments. It delivers exceptional reliability in even the harshest operating conditions.

Leverage your existing IT infrastructure
The T9940B provides backward-read compatibility with 9940A cartridges. It can rewrite the cartridges with three times more data, for extended investment protection.

Facilitate compliance with regulatory demands
Integrate the T9940 with VolSafe media cartridges and you will have a cost-effective, highly reliable 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.

 
PricingTop

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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T9940B tape drive frontT9940A tape drive frontT9940B tape drive

 
SpecificationsTop
Performance
Access time*T9940AT9940B
Tape load and thread to ready:18 sec (formatted)
18 sec (formatted)
Average file access time (first file):41 sec
41 sec
Average access time :59 sec
59 sec
Maximum/average rewind time:90/45 sec
90/45 sec
Unload time:18 sec
18 sec
Data transfer rate, native (uncompressed):10 MB/sec
30 MB/sec
Data transfer rate (compressed):35 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
 T9940AT9940B
Capacity, native (uncompressed):60 GB
200 GB
Availability
Mean time between failures (MTBF)T9940AT9940B
Power on: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 (100,00 loads)
Tape path motion (TPM):196,000 hr @ 70% TPM duty cycle
196,000 hr @ 70% TPM duty cycle
Head life:8.5 yr @ 70% TPM duty cycle
8.5 yr @ 70% TPM duty cycle
Uncorrected bit error rate:1x10(-18)
1x10(-18)
Undetected bit error rate:1x10(-33)
1x10(-33)
Compatibility
 T9940AT9940B
Interface:1 Gb Fibre Channel, Ultra-SCSI HVD (40 MB/sec), ESCON 20 MB/sec (maximum)
2 Gb Fibre Channel, ESCON, ESCON for VSM, 2Gb 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)
Interface (Fibre Channel):
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
Emulation modes:Native, 3490E, 3590
Native, T9940A, 3490E, 3590
Mechanical
 T9940AT9940B
Height:5.25 in
3.25 (8.25 cm)
Depth:25.0 in (63.5 cm)
25.0 in (63.5 cm)
Environmental
TemperatureT9940AT9940B
Temperature (operating):+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 )
+59° to +90° F (+15° to +32° C)
HumidityT9940AT9940B
Relative humidity (operating):20%-80%
20%-80%
Relative humidity (non-operating):10%-95%
10%-95%
Power
 T9940AT9940B
Voltage: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
 
 

 
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