T950 Characteristics & Advantages

Extreme Scalability
CoD^TM,a capacity on demand feature, allows you to easily scale up storage capacity in one library on an as-needed basis. With CoD, you can efficiently manage your data growth while eliminating long-range forecasting and expensive retrofits.

Networking Flexibility
Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel interfaces support NDMP, Serverless Backup and iSCSI applications.

QIPs (Quad Interface Processors)
Usually, you have to deal with added costs, points of failure and frustration dealing with yet another storage vendor in order to take advantage of Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet and SCSI connectivity in a library.

QIP technology makes it easy for you to have affordable connectivity within your libraries and receive flexible interface and networking options. QIPs are available on enterprise libraries – 20K, 64K, T950, and T120.

Data Consolidation
Shared Library Services^TM (SLS) library partitioning makes it easy for customers to utilize new and legacy operating systems, backup software and tape drives in one tape library simultaneously. Since the library can be partitioned into up to 120 libraries, you can share backup operations with more than one department, application and office location. By creating logical libraries you can provide support for heterogeneous platforms, software applications, tape drives, media, and interface technologies, all in the same physical library

Remote Management
The Library Controller’s color touch screen makes it easy to manage daily backup operations on site. The Web-based Remote Library Controller option makes it easy for you to manage your library from anywhere in the world.

Specifications

	One Frame(T950)	Five Frames(T950-5)	Max Throughput	Drives
	Terapacks / Cartridges / Capacity(TB)*	Terapacks / Cartridges / Capacity(TB)*	TB/hour
LTO-2 (IBM) (Single LTO-2 drive Capacity is 200GB native/400GB compressed and throughput is 35MB second native /70MB/second compressed)	95 /950 /190TB-380TB 83 /830 /166TB-332TB - - -	615 /6,150 /1.230TB-2,460TB 603 /6,030 /1,206TB-2,412TB 439 /4,390 /878TB-1,756TB	1.51/3.02 3.02/6.05 15.12/30.24	12 Drives 24 Drives 120 Drives
SDLT 600 (Quantum) (Single SDLT drive capacity is 300GB native/ 600GB compressed and throughput is 35MB/second native /70MB/second compressed)	95 /855 /257TB-513TB 83 /747 /224TB-448TB - - -	615 /5,535 /1,661TB-3,321TB 603 /5,427 /1,628TB-3,256TB 439 /3,951 /1,195TB-2,370TB	1.38/2.76 2.76/5.53 13.82/27.65	12 Drives 24 Drives 120 Drives
SAIT-1 (Sony) (Single SAIT-1 drive capacity is 500GB native/1.3TB compressed and throughput is 30MB/second native /78MB/second compressed) compressed)	95 /950 /475TB-1,235TB 83 /830 /415TB-1,079TB - - -	615 /6,150 /3,075TB-7,995TB 603 /6,030 /3,015TB-7,839TB 439 /4,390 /2,195TB-5,707TB	1.30/3.37 2.59/6.74 12.96/33.70	12 Drives 24 Drives 120 Drives
AIT-4 (Sony) (Single AIT-4 drive capacity is 200GB native/520GB compressed and throughput is 30MB/second native /78MB/second compressed)	95 95/1,140 /228TB-593TB 83/996 /199TB-518TB - - -	615 /7,380 /1,476TB-3,838TB 603 /7,236 /1,447TB-3,763TB 439 /5,268 /1054TB-2,740TB	2.07/5.39 4.15/10.78 20.74/53.91	24 Drives 48 Drives 240 Drives
RXT (Portable Disc Pack) (Single Terapack of disks is 960GB and the controller is 80MB/sec)	95 / - /91.2 83 / - /79.68 - - -	615 / - /590.4 603 / - /578.88 439 / - /421.44	3.46 6.91 34.56	12 Drives 24 Drives 120 Drives
Note that the AIT half-height form factor allows twice as many drives. *native/compressed

Interfaces:

• Fibre-Channel, 2 Gb/sec, dual port, Serverless Backup, 4 GB/sec Q4 2004
• Gigabit Ethernet, 1 Gb/sec,dual port, iSCSI and NDMP, TCP/IP Offload

Single frame library configurations:

• 100 to 950 cartridges
• 2 to 24 drives
• LTO,SAIT and SDLT or AIT-4
• Remote management
• Compatibility with major operating systems
• ISV certification
• Hot swappable components
• 2 Gb Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity
• Physical Characteristics:
  H 200.1 cm,W 77.8 cm,D 109.8 cm
  H 78.77 in,W 30.63 in,D 43.21 in

Weights:

• Base Frame (no drives or media)-800 lbs
• Drive Expansion Frame (no drives or media)-750 lbs
• Media Expansion Frame (no media)-700 lbs
• Drive/Sled -12 lbs
• TeraPack (with media)-6 lbs

Power Requirements:

• Input Power: 8.2-6.8 Amps (RMS)at 200-240 VAC,50/60 Hz (max config)

Reliability Stats:

• Mean Cycles Between Failures (MCBF) - 2,000,000
• Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) - 250,000 power-on Hrs.
• Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) - minutes for hot swap components,30 minutes average for non-hot swap components