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9940 tape cartridge

The StorageTek® 9940 tape cartridge was designed with StorageTek T9940 tape drives to store up to 200 gigabytes of uncompressed data, or up to 400 gigabytes with 2:1 data compression, on a single cartridge. This ultra-high capacity makes the 9940 cartridge ideal for your high-volume archiving, backup and disaster recovery applications.


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Spec Summary
  
Capacity, native (uncompressed):60 GB (T9940A), 200 GB (T9940B)
Supported tape drives:T9940A, T9940B
Archival life:15-30 years
 
Related Information
Product CollateralTechnical Documents
9940 tape cartridge offering collateral (pdf 144K Apr 2005)
New versus recertified tape offering collateral (pdf 308K Dec 2004)
Tape media comparison (pdf 60K Mar 2005)
 
 
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9940 tape cartridge

 
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Disaster recovery
9940 cartridges with T9940 tape drives are an integral part of enterprise disaster recovery processes that remotely vault data in tape form. 9940 tape cartridges have the durability and longevity required to keep vaulted data safe over its life.

Archiving
9940 tape cartridges with T9940 tape drives are the high-capacity option for enterprise archiving systems requiring highly-reliable, long-term storage. When implemented with VolSafe® secure media technology, this solution provides a cost-effective, proven technology, for off-site or on-site backup copies that support your regulatory compliance.

Backup and restore
Using 9940 cartridges with T9940 tape drives for backup and restore shortens backup and recovery times with high transfer rates and fewer cartridge mounts and dismounts. 9940 tape cartridges preserve data through the most strenuous reading, writing and retention processes.

 
BenefitsTop

Investment protection
Full backward read and write compatibility protects your investment in tape drives and libraries. The media is designed and packaged in the 3480 form factor.

High reliability
The StorageTek 9940 tape cartridge is built to perform a minimum of 10,000 tape mounts. It features a single reel form factor with a leader block designed for high reliability.

Reduced costs
Ultra-high capacity cartridge saves you money with the lowest dollar-per-gigabyte media, minimizes tape mounts and improves automation efficiency for less wear to hardware.

 
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Durable design
The 9940 tape cartridge’s heavy-duty shell design offers excellent physical protection, which means fewer damaged cartridges and lower replacement and data recovery costs.

Seamless integration
System-testing with StorageTek T9940A and T9940B tape drives and StorageTek libraries saves labor and time resources at installation and in production.

Pre-labeling, initializing
The cartridges can be pre-labeled and initialized, then verified with a triple quality check. This process reduces the downtime and costs from poorly applied labels or incorrect initialization.

StorageTek 9940 VolSafe data cartridge
StorageTek’s 9940 VolSafe® data cartridge provides 200 gigabytes (native) of non-erasable, non-rewritable, write-once-read-many (WORM) storage for use in T9940B tape drives.

 
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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) or 1-877-STK-TAPE for more information.

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SpecificationsTop
Performance
Tape speed
Read and write:2.0 m/sec (79 ips) T9940A, 2.4 m/sec (95 ips) T9940B
Search and rewind:11.0 m/sec (440 ips)
Formulation:Advanced metal particle (AMP)
Coercivity:1625+/-75 Oersteds (130+/16.0 KA/m)
Substrate:Polyethylene naphthalate (PEN)
Track-following servo:Factory pre-recorded
Capacity
 
Capacity, native (uncompressed):60 GB (T9940A), 200 GB (T9940B)
Availability
 
Archival life:15-30 years
Short-length durability:80,000 read/write passes minimum
Long-length durability:6,500 read/write passes minimum
Uncorrected bit error rate:1x10(-18)
Permanent errors:0
Loads/unloads:10,000 minimum
Compatibility
 
Supported tape drives:T9940A, T9940B
Number of tracks:288 (T9940A), 576 (T9940B)
Form factor:Half inch, 3480/3490E
Mechanical
 
Height:1.0 in (2.54 cm)
Depth:4.92 in (12.50 cm)
Width:4.29 in (10.90 cm)
Weight:9.17 oz (262.0 g)
Drop strength:39.4 in (1.0 m)
Environmental
Humidity
Relative humidity (operating):20%-80%
Relative humidity (storage up to four weeks):5%-80%
Relative humidity (storage - archive):30%-40%
Relative humidity (shipping):5%-80%
Temperature (non-condensing)
Temperature (operating):+60 to +90 F (+15 to +32 C)
Temperature (storage up to four weeks):+40 to +90 F (+5 to +32 C)
Temperature (storage - archive):+59 to +77 F (+15 to +25 C)
Temperature (shipping):-10 to +120 F (-23 to +49 C)
Wet bulb maximum
Wet bulb max (operating):+78 F (+26 C)
Wet bulb max (storage up to four weeks):+78 F (+26 C)
Wet bulb max (storage - archive):+78 F (+26 C)
Wet bulb max (shipping):+78 F (+26 C)
 
 

 
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