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Specifications

Dell™ PowerVault™ 136T Tape Library User's Guide

Tape Cartridge Capacity

Drive Capacity

Allowed Tape Cartridges and Storage Capacity

Physical Specifications

Power Specifications

Performance Specifications

Environmental Specifications

Depending on your drive type, many physical characteristics of your library will differ. The following sections provide specific information about your library, including cartridge capacity and allowed tape cartridges. This section also covers ideal temperature and humidity ranges for each type of media.

Tape Cartridge Capacity

The tape cartridge capacity of the library is determined by the media type. The maximum cartridge configuration includes a Bulk Load Mailbox feature.

Table 1. Tape Cartridge Capacity

Drive Capacity

The drive capacity is determined by the type of library. The following table shows the number of drives for each type of library.

Table 2. Number of Allowed Drives

Allowed Tape Cartridges and Storage Capacity

For each drive type, different tape cartridges are supported, resulting in different storage capacities and transfer rates.

The following sections provide information on what type of tape cartridges can be used for each drive type. Tapes written in formats that are not supported by the installed drives should not be introduced into the library.

SDLT

Refer to Table 3 for each SDLT tape cartridge compatibility with each SDLT tape drive and native storage capacity.

NOTICE: If a SDLT 220 drive overwrites a 320-formatted tape, all data on that tape is lost. This includes any attempt to space past the data written with the SDLT 220 drive and read the original data.

Table 3. Allowed SDLT/DLT Tape Cartridges and Native Capacity

* The SDLT 320 drive will read and write to 220-formatted tapes at SDLT 220 speeds.

LTO

Refer to Table 4 for each LTO tape cartridge compatibility with each LTO tape drive and native storage capacity.

Table 4. Allowed LTO Cartridges and Native Capacity

Physical Specifications

The physical specifications for the library are shown in Table 5.

Table 5. Physical Specifications

Power Specifications

The library contains an internal autoranging power supply that accepts 90 to 260 V~ and provides automatic input voltage and frequency selection. The library is capable of continued operations during periods of AC power fluctuation, voltage surges, and voltage spikes. Conducted emissions are reduced by an AC line filter. The electrical specifications for the library are shown in Table 6.

Table 6. Power Specifications

*Power consumption is obtained using RMS values for voltage and current. Drive sled power consumption is taken while writing to a tape.

Performance Specifications

The performance information for the library is listed in Table 7.

Table 7. Performance Specifications

Environmental Specifications

The environmental information for the library is listed in Table 8.

Table 8. Environmental Specifications

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