
Chapter 2 SDLT 600 Tape Drive Specifications
Product Specifications
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Head Life and MTBF 2 The projected mean time between failures (MTBF) for the overall SDLT
600 tape drive system is 250,000 hours, not including the heads. Head life
is a minimum of 30,000 tape motion hours and an average of 50,000
media motion hours.
Media Durability 2 Table 8 shows the number of media passes and full media uses to expect
from a Super DLTtape II data cartridge.
Table 8 SDLTtape II Data
Cartridge Media Durability
Data Cartridge Life
Expectancy
2
Table 9 shows the number of load and unload cycles you can expect
before the data cartridges need to be replaced.
Note: The manufacturer does not warrant that predicted MTBF is
representative of any particular unit installed for customer
use. Actual figures vary from unit to unit.
Media Durability
Media passes* 1,000,000
Full media uses
** 250
* A media pass occurs with any movement (in either direction) of
the surface of the media over the tape head.
** A full media use is an operation that reads or writes (with verify
off) the full capacity of the data cartridge.
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