User`s guide

Chapter 6 Specifications

Injected Noise Specifications

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Injected Noise Specifications

The internal drive operates without degradation of error rates with 100

mV of noise injected between the chassis and 0 V at the power connector

at any frequency between 45 Hz and 20 MHz.

Reliability Specifications

The LTO-3 Half-Height Tape Drive is designed for maximum reliability

and data integrity. Table 10

lists the reliability specifications.

Table 10 Reliability

Specifications

Specification Description

Cartridge load/eject 100,000 cartridge load/eject cycles (no thread)

Error recovery and

control

• Error correction code techniques

(C1 and C2 ECC)

• Read-after-write (RAW)

• Error monitoring and reporting (error log)

•Retry on

Mean time between

failures (MTBF)

250,000 hours MTBF at 100% duty cycle:

power applied and tape moving continuously

(tabletop drive; 50,000 hours at full load and

25°C)

Mean time to replace

(MTTR)

Less than 30 minutes

Nonrecoverable error

rate

Less than 1 in 10

bits