Imation BLACK WATCH 9940 - Manual

Imation
Imation’s industry-leading media technology offers superior
reliability in the Black Watch 9940 cartridge, including
proprietary backcoating for durability and servo writing for
precision tracking. The 9940 cartridge is the first 200GB
enterprise class cartridge available. And because of Imation’s
co-development with StorageTek, 9940 media and drives are
perfectly matched to meet your capacity-intensive data
storage needs.
For those who value capacity plus performance, multiple
connectivity options and a low cost of ownership, T9940
capacity-centric technology is the solution.
Black Watch TM 9940
Tape Cartridge
CAPACITY PLUS
High Capacity,
Low Cost Storage Solution
60
GB
or 200
GB
Native Capacity
Your data storage needs are growing. And so are your storage
options. So, how do you find a balance between high capacity
and performance, with a low cost of ownership? The Imation
Black Watch ™ 9940 Half-Inch Tape Cartridge is your answer.
Exclusively co-developed with StorageTek, the Black Watch 9940
tape cartridge packs 60GB (typically 120–240GB compressed)
capacity into a single-reel, familiar 3480 form factor. When
using the StorageTek T9940B drive, this same cartridge offers
200GB (typically 400–600GB compressed) native capacity
and a native transfer rate of 30MB/second.
Based on StorageTek’s 9840 access-centric platform, the
industry’s most rapidly adopted half-inch tape technology, the
9940 system leverages many of 9840’s proven media and drive
components. Designed for data-intensive storage applications
such as archive, backup and disaster recovery, the 9940
system includes SCSI, ESCON and Fibre Channel connectivity.
With the ability to co-exist with other StorageTek drives, the
9940 system means optimum flexibility in managing multiple
and existing applications.