HP LTO Ultrium Tape Drives Technical Reference Manual Volume 4: Specifications
HP LTO Ultrium Tape Drives Technical Reference Manual Volume 4: Specifications
HP LTO Ultrium Tape Drives Technical Reference Manual Volume 4: Specifications
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Volume 4: specifications
LTO 5 drives
Abstract
This is one of five volumes that document HP LTO Ultrium 5 tape drives (Fibre Channel and SAS). This volume
details specifications. See Chapter 11 on page 43 for details of the other guides.
Acknowledgements
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Warranty
WARRANTY STATEMENT: To obtain a copy of the warranty for this product, see the warranty information website:
http://www.hp.com/go/storagewarranty
Contents
1 Features ............................................................................................ 6
Data security features .................................................................................................................. 6
Tape partitioning features ............................................................................................................ 6
5 Environmental .................................................................................. 25
Climatics ................................................................................................................................. 25
Operating ......................................................................................................................... 25
Non-operating ................................................................................................................... 25
General ............................................................................................................................ 26
Dynamics ................................................................................................................................ 26
Noise ...................................................................................................................................... 27
Airflow .................................................................................................................................... 27
6 Safety ............................................................................................. 29
Safety and EMC agency requirements ......................................................................................... 29
Transceivers ............................................................................................................................. 29
7 Media ............................................................................................ 31
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Specification ............................................................................................................................ 31
Environmental specifications (media) ........................................................................................... 32
Operating ......................................................................................................................... 32
Storage (day-to-day) ........................................................................................................... 32
Storage (transportation) ....................................................................................................... 33
Storage (archival) ............................................................................................................... 33
LTO-Cartridge Memory (EEPROM) ............................................................................................... 33
Interface specification ......................................................................................................... 33
Further information ............................................................................................................. 34
9 Reliability ........................................................................................ 37
Index ................................................................................................. 47
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Figures
1 Full-height drives—plan .............................................................................................. 9
2 Full-height drives—side ............................................................................................ 10
3 Full-height drives—front ............................................................................................ 10
4 Full-height drives—rear view (Fibre Channel) ............................................................... 11
5 Full-height drives—rear view (SAS) ............................................................................ 11
6 Half-height drives—plan .......................................................................................... 12
7 Half-height drives—side ........................................................................................... 12
8 Half-height drives—front ........................................................................................... 12
9 Half-height drives—rear view (Fibre Channel) ............................................................. 13
10 Half-height drives—rear view (SAS) ........................................................................... 13
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1 Features
Feature Specification
Data interfaces FC: Full height: 8 Gb/s dual port Fibre Channel
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Decimal MB/s including wrap turn-around and up to 1% dataset re-writes.
Number of partitions 2
6 Features
Description Specification
WORM cartridge Partitioning a WORM cartridge is not supported as per U-516 Annex L
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8 Features
2 Physical specification
Dimensions
Full-height Half-height
Full-height drives
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Figure 2 Full-height drives—side
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NOTE:
The diagram shows the Automation bezel.
10 Physical specification
Figure 4 Full-height drives—rear view (Fibre Channel)
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Half-height drives
NOTE:
The diagram shows the System bezel.
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Figure 9 Half-height drives—rear view (Fibre Channel)
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Product weight
Full-height Half-height
Drive orientation
HP LTO Ultrium drives will operate in 0°, –90° and +90° orientations when viewed from the front
panel. In addition, in the 0° axis, the drive will operate with +20°nose-up tilt.
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14 Physical specification
3 Electrical requirements
DC voltage specifications
5V 12V
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Write, Read and Erase average values are taken over two full wraps
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Write and Read RMS values include the peaks from the motor start-up ramps.
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Full-height SAS drives
The following are the maximum currents drawn from the power supplies for the HP LTO Ultrium 5
full-height SAS drive from a sample of six drives.
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Write, Read and Erase average values are taken over two full wraps.
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Write and Read RMS values include the peaks from the motor start-up ramps.
NOTE:
HP Ultrium LTO5 SAS tape drives are powered via the SAS connector and do not have a regular
4-pin power connector.
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Mode 5V (avg) 5V (max)
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5V (max)
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12V (avg) 12V (max)
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Write, Read and Erase average values are taken over two full wraps.
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Write and Read RMS values include the peaks from the motor start-up ramps.
NOTE:
HP Ultrium LTO5 SAS tape drives are powered via the SAS connector and do not have a regular
4-pin power connector.
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Write, Read and Erase average values are taken over two full wraps.Write and Read RMS values
include the peaks from the motor start-up ramps.
NOTE:
Half-height FC values are preliminary until the final hardware is available.
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Power consumption specifications
Full-height drives
The following are the maximum power consumptions drawn from the power supplies for the HP LTO
Ultrium 5 full-height tape drive from a sample of six drives.
Average Peak
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Peak
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Average Peak
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Peak
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Power consumption
Half-height drives
The following are the maximum power consumptions drawn from the power supplies for the HP LTO
Ultrium 5 half-height tape drive from a sample of six drives.
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Power consumption
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Description FC internal SAS internal
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Peak
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Average Peak
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NOTE:
Half-height FC values are preliminary until the final hardware is available.
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20 Electrical requirements
4 Electromagnetic compatibility
NOTE:
The EMC performance of internal storage products depends on the characteristics of the system in
which the product is installed. HP has tested products installed in server enclosures and in external
desktop enclosures to verify EMC performance against the regulatory standards in force at the time
of introduction.
Products will comply with new regulatory standards by or before the date of withdrawal of the
superseded standards, during their prodution life.
EN 55024:1998+A1+A2
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EN/IEX 61000-4-2:1995 Electrostatic Discharge 10.5 kV Air and 6.3 kV
CISPR 24:1997+A1 +A2 Contact
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FCC CFR 47 Part 15 ANSI C63.4:2003 Radiated Emissions Class B 30 MHz—2 GHz
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General standard Reference standards Test description Test level/class
EN 55024:1998+A1
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EN/IEC 61000-4-4:1995 Fast transients bursts 2.2 kV AC Power Port
CISPR 24:1997+A1
EN/IEC 61000-4-4:1995 Fast transients bursts 1.1 kV Signal Port
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ITE emissions
Standards
22 Electromagnetic compatibility
ITE immunities
Standards
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24 Electromagnetic compatibility
5 Environmental
Climatics
These apply to the mechanism unless otherwise noted. For the environmental specification of media,
see Media.
Operating
Parameter Specification
Operating temperature with Full-height: at 6 cfm airflow: 10°C to 35°C (50°F to 95°F)
media at 8 cfm airflow: 10°C to 40°C (50°F to 104°F)
Non-operating
Parameter Specification
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General
Parameter Specification
Dynamics
Description Mode Specification
Vibration
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Operating
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Random: 0.31G rms 5 to 500 Hz 0.000194 g2/Hz
(Brick) (3 axes)
Non-Operating
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Random: (approx. 2.41G rms 5 to 500 Hz)
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100–137 Hz @ –6 dB/octave
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350–500 Hz @ –6 dB/octave
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Swept sine:
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Shock
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Operating 5G peak 3 ms (half sine)—no performance change
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ized* Pulse rate 1 pulse every 10 sec, +ve and –ve direction
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Description Mode Specification
One drop per bottom corner free fall from 100 mm, while
rotating about the edge on the other two corners, each
corner stands on a 10 mm and 20 mm spacer respectively.
Drop a total of four bottom corners
Transportation Vibration
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Swept sine: 0.5G peak 5–200–5 Hz @ 1 octave/min
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100–200 Hz @ –6dB/octave
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100–200 Hz @ -6dB/octave
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Shock Drop height = 0.30m (12 in) 5 impacts (1 vertical flat base,
4 rotational edges)
*HP test philosophy is to test the product to failure so that the product margin can be characterized
against the normal operating and non-operating specifications.
Noise
Parameter Specification
Airflow
HP LTO Ultrium drives require forced airflow from front to back.
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Airflow (operating and non-operating)
Full-height drives 0.17 m3/min (6 cu ft/min) at 35ºC ambient operation, rising to 0.23 m3/min (8 cu
ft/min) for up to 40ºC ambient operation, from front to back
Half-height drives 0.14 m3/min (5 cu ft/min) at 40ºC ambient operation, from front to back
28 Environmental
6 Safety
External N/A Y
External N/A Y
External N/A Y
External N/A Y
Australia
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C-Tick Safety-EMC Internal N/A Y
New Zealand
External N/A Y
Transceivers
The Fibre Optic transceivers used in FC products are Class 1 Laser components and comply with US
FDA regulations.
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These components are certified to meet the Class 1 eye safety requirements of EN (IEC) 60825 and
the electrical safety requirements of EN (IEC) 60950.
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7 Media
Specification
HP Product Number Format Capacity* Notes
*Capacities at 2:1 data compression. The actual capacity depends on the compression ratio of the
data. This is typically 2:1 but can be anywhere between 1:1 and 110:1. GB are decimal MB.
NOTE:
The HP Ultrium LTO 5 tape drives does not support Ultrium–2 R/W and Ultrium–1 R/W cartridge
(10, 30, 50 and 100 GB cartridges). HP recommends the use of the “set capacity” SCSI command
to logically shorten standard cartridges for test purposes.
Tape Base film: Metal Particle PEN Metal Particle PEN (Poly-Ethylene-Naphthal-
(Poly-Ethylene- ate)
Napthalate) or
equivalent
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Ultrium-5 Ultrium-4 Ultrium-3
Depth: 102.0±0.30 mm
Height: 21.5±0.25 mm
Weight: 0.220 kg
Data channels: 16 16 16
Number of wraps: 80 56 44
Number of bands: 4 4 4
Parameter Specification
* The media is specified to operate down to 10% RH as a margin beyond the minimum specified for
the operating drive (20%).
Storage (day-to-day)
Parameter Specification
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Parameter Specification
Storage (transportation)
Parameter Specification
Storage (archival)
Archival storage is recommended for cartridges that need to be stored more than six months. Cartridges
should be stored in plastic containers, preferably on their sides.
Parameter Specification
Interface specification
• Contactless, passive RF interface using a proximity inductive coupling with a range in the order
of millimeters.
• Power to the transponder is coupled through the interface.
• The range depends on implementation (maximum 10 to 20 mm). The best error rate performance
occurs at short distances.
• The memory can be read from below (by a drive) or the front (in libraries).
• 8192 bytes
• Organized as 255 x 32 byte blocks
• >500K write cycles, 20 year data retention life
• Write/read size is word-wide (2 bytes) or block-wide (32 bytes)
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Further information
• For suggestions of how to make use of cartridge memory in libraries, see “LTO Cartridge Memory
(LTO-CM)” in Chapter 5, “Supporting LTO Ultrium Features” in the Software Integration Guide,
Volume 2 of the HP LTO Ultrium Technical Manual.
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8 LTO Ultrium format standard
Compatibility
HP LTO Ultrium 5 drives are specified to interchange data cartridges with other tape drives that comply
to the LTO U-316, U-416 and U-516 specification documents:
Future compatibility
In future, HP LTO Ultrium drives will always be capable of reading and writing tapes from the current
generation and one generation before, and reading tapes from two generations before. HP LTO
Ultrium drives will always maintain write and read compatibility with other manufacturers’ LTO Ultrium
drives and tapes that meet the LTO Ultrium format specification.
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36 LTO Ultrium format standard
9 Reliability
Description Specification
Load/unload life (only valid when the drive is operated Full–height: 120,000 cycles
in a standard office environment)
Half–height: 80,000 cycles
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38 Reliability
10 Performance specification
The drive will match the throughput of any host up to the maximum supported transfer rate using the
Data Rate Matching (DRM) functionality. There is no performance penalty for hosts that are slower
than the maximum supported transfer rate. This capability is accomplished using buffer management
for transfer rates of 0 MB/s up to the minimum tape streaming transfer rate, and the Adaptive Tape
Speed (ATS) technology from the minimum to maximum tape streaming transfer rate.
Transfer rates
Maximum sustained transfer rate Native: 140 MB/s
with encryption: 8 MB
The drive will match the throughput of any host up to the maximum supported transfer rate using the
Data Rate Matching (DRM) functionality. There is no performance penalty for hosts that are slower
than the maximum supported transfer rate. This capability is accomplished using buffer management
for transfer rates of 0 MB/s up to the minimum tape streaming transfer rate, and the Adaptive Tape
Speed (ATS) technology from the minimum to maximum tape streaming transfer rate.
Data compression
The compression engine uses an enhanced algorithm based on ALDC where data expansion due to
redundant data is minimized. This is achieved by having two compression schemes (normal and
pass-through) with the ability to switch dynamically between them.
It is possible to force the drive to turn off Data Compression using the Data Compression mode page
or the SDCA parameter in the Sequential Access Mode Page.
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Speeds
Tape read/write speed 6.04 m/s (LTO 5)
6.20 m/s (LTO 4)
5.32 m/s (LTO 3)
Timings
Capacity full backup times
The following table shows approximate backup times for supported tape cartridges:
Cartridge Time
Load/unload times
Time
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Other times
Parameter Time
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42 Performance specification
11 Support and other resources
Related documents
The following documents provide additional information:
Documentation map
The following will help you locate information in the Technical Reference Manual. A reference like
“1 HW Integration: ch. 7” means Volume 1, Hardware Integration Guide, of the HP LTO Ultrium
Technical Reference Manual, chapter 7.
Drives—general
Specifications 4 Specifications
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FC Drives SAS Drives
2 SW Integration: ch. 4
Operation
Cartridges
Interface
2 SW Integration: ch. 5
Cleaning nl
2 SW Integration: ch. 7
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FC Drives SAS Drives
1 HW Integration: ch. 2
Cartridge Memory (LTO-CM) nl
2 SW Integration: ch. 5
ISO CP 56
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CH-1211 Geneva 20
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Switzerland
CH-1204 Geneva
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Web URL: http://www.ecma.ch
Switzerland
USA
A F
access time, 40 features, 6
airflow, 27 format, 6
altitude, 25 format standard, 35
ANSI, 43, 46 future compatibility, 35
archival storage
environment, 33
H
humidity
B drives, 25
backup times, 40 media, 32
bandwidth, 39
I
C immunities, 21
climatics, 25 INCITS, 46
CM, 6, 33 interfaces, 6
compatibility, 35 ISO, 46
compression, 39
compression format, 6
currents drawn from power supplies, 15
L
library interface, 6
life of drive, 37
D load/unload times, 40
data compression, 39 LTO Ultrium format standard, 35
data encryption, 6 LTO-cartridge memory, 33
data security, 6
DC voltage specifications, 15
dimensions, drive, 9
M
documents, related, 43 magnetic field interference, 23
drive orientation, 13 media specification, 31
dynamics, 26 MTBF, 37
E N
ECMA, 46 noise, 27
electrical requirements, 15
electromagnetic compatibility, 21
EMC agency requirements, 29
O
EMC test specification, 21 orientation, 13
emissions, 22
encryption, 39
environmental specifications, 25
P
partitions, 6
error rates, 37
performance specification, 39
physical specification, 9
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power consumption, 18
R
read-while-write, 6
reliability, 37
rewind times, 41
S
safety, 29
shock, 26
speed of recording, 6
standard, LTO format, 35
suspended particle density, 25
T
tape partitions, 6
temperature
drives, 25
media, 32
times
access, 40
capacity full backup, 40
load/unload, 40
rewind, 41
turn-around, 41
transfer rates, 39
transportation of media, 33
turn-around times, 41
V
vibration, 26
W
weight, drive, 13
wet bulb temperature
drives, 25
media, 32
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