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Specifications - Exabyte Eliant 820 8mm Tape Drive

Typical application:
UNIX, NetWare and NT midrange networks; mixed workstation.



The Eliant 820 is a dependable, cost-effective backup system that keeps pace with shrinking backup windows. The Eliant 820 can back up 14 gigabytes of data in approximately two hours.
Consistently reliable, compatible and economical, Exabyte tape drives integrate easily into virtually any system architecture. Exabyte has shipped more 8mm tape drives than any other company and today the installed base of Exabyte tape drives and libraries exceeds one million units.

Capacity

14 GB, compressed

7 GB, uncompressed


Performance

Transfer rate, sustained:
2 MB/sec, compressed
1 MB/sec, uncompressed

Transfer rate, burst:
2.5 MB/sec,async
5 MB/sec,sync

Search rate:
60 MB/sec compressed
30 MB/sec uncompressed

Interface
SCSI-2 Single-ended or diff

Buffer size
1 MB

Data Integrity
BER < 1 in 1017
Reed-Solomon ECC
Onboard error recovery

Reliability
MTBF: 200,000 hours
Read-after-write verification

Recording Method

8mm helical scan

Read/Write Formats

Read/write: 8500/8500c
Read: 8200 series


Environmental
Operating temp: (41¡ F -104¡F)
Non-operating temp: (-40¡ F-140¡F)

Relative humidity
Non condensing, operating: 20% to 80%

Power

Internal: +5 VDC, +12 VDC 11 watts typical
External: Universal auto-switching (100/240 VAC)

Dimensions (HxWxD)
Internal: 1.6 in. x 5.8 in. x 8 in / 4.1 cm x 14.6 cm x 20.3
External: 3 in. x 9 in. x 11 in. / 7.6 cm x 22.9 cm x 27.9

Weight
Internal: 2.6 lbs./1.2 kg
 
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