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1.2 Capacity and Transfer Rates
The capacity and transfer rate of the actiDisk RDX storage system are outlined in the table below (see Table 1).
Capacity and transfer rate will vary depending on the actiDisk RDX cartridge type used.
Table 1. Capacity and Transfer Rates
1.3 Supported Media
The actiDisk RDX system supports any actiDisk RDX cartridge. actiDisk RDX cartridges are available in different capacity
confi gurations depending on your storage requirements.
1.4 Supported Operating Systems
The actiDisk RDX storage system is supported on the following operating systems:
• Windows Vista™
• Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
• Windows 2003 Service Pack 1 or later
• Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later
• Linux (see „Linux Compatibility“ section for more details)
1.5 Software
Retrospect
®
Backup Software
The actiDisk RDX storage system works with industry backup applications that support removable disk media.
See your backup software manual for instructions on backing up data.
Characteristic RDX 80 GB RDX 120 GB RDX 160 GB RDX 320 GB RDX 500 GB
Media Media Media Media Media
Native capacity (GB) 80 120 160 320 500
Compressed capacity (GB) 160 240 320 640 1000
Average sustained
transfer rate (MBs/sec) SATA 30 MBps/USB 25 MBps
Burst transfer rate SATA 1.5 Gbps/USB 480 Mbps
Average access time (msec) 15
Function Removable disk drive
Command set • Packet command feature set, per ATA/ATAPI-7
• SCSI primary commands (SPC-2)
• SCSI block commands (SBC-2)
Logical block size 512 bytes
Supported fi le systems ext2, ext3, FAT32 and NTFS*
*NTFS is the default fi le system on the cartridge. If you are using Linux then the cartridge that comes with your system will
need to be re-formatted to support a fi le system that is compatible with a Linux based operating system (see section
„actiDisk RDX Cartridge File System Considerations“ in the appendix).