User's Manual

Chapter 1 Introduction
Features
DLT-V4 Product Manual 2
Features 1
The DLT-V4 tape drive offers the following features:
• Supported formats: DLT-V4 (read/write using DLTtape
®
VS1 Media
data cartridges), DLT VS160 (read only using DLTtape VS1 Media
data cartridges), DLT1/VS80 (read only using DLTtape IV data
cartridges).
• Uses DLTtape VS1 data cartridge.
• 5¼-inch half-height form-factor.
• Formatted data cartridge capacity of 160 GB native, 320 GB
compressed.*
• Sustained user data transfer rate of 10 MB/s native, up to 20 MB/s
with compression*.
• For the SCSI interface tape drive, to achieve 160 MB/s, an Ultra160,
or Ultra320, Low-Voltage Differential (LVD) or Single-Ended (SE)
Wide SCSI bus is required.
• For the SATA/eSATA interface tape drive, a SATA/eSATA interface
card is required.
• For the USB interface tape drive, a USB 2.0 port is required.
* In accordance with industry practice, a typical compression ratio of 2:1 is
quoted. The redundancy and type of data files being written determine the
actual compression ratios achieved.