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: Relative humidity Non condensing, operating: 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

Internal 2.6 lbs./1.2 kg