Date: 26-Nov-2009 URL: www.sun.com/storage/tape_storage/tape_media/9840/features.xml

Sun StorageTek 9840 Data Cartridge

Features and Benefits

Got a StorageTek T9840 tape drive? Protect its reliability and optimize its performance with the StorageTek 9840 tape cartridge. They’re backward compatible to three previous generations of StorageTek T9840 tape drives, provide an average file access time of 8 seconds, and can store up to 75 GB of uncompressed data on a single cartridge.

Key Benefits

Backward compatible
Store up to 75 GB on a single, reusable cartridge
Provides an average file access time of 8 seconds
Cost-effective media for volume offline storage

Investment Protection

Media consistency

The StorageTek 9840 data cartridge is compatible with three previous generations of StorageTek T9840 tape drives, and integrates easily with current Sun StorageTek libraries, protecting your media investments.

Built to last

StorageTek 9840 data cartridges are designed to preserve data through years of the most strenuous reading, writing, and retention cycles.

Long-term, fixed-content storage

When outfitted with fast-access StorageTek T9840 tape drives and StorageTek 9840 data cartridges, tape libraries can serve as a high-volume source for a large-capacity storage device for fixed-content data. Sun StorageTek VolSafe secure media technology utilizes Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) technology to secure high-value, fixed-content data. Together, StorageTek T9840 tape drives and StorageTek 9840 tape cartridges comprise an ideal, active archive for regulated data that has been used worldwide since 2000 to meet compliance requirements.

Increased Productivity

Less wasted time

Faster data transfer rates enable you to reduce batch windows and accelerate access to data, so your IT staff can get more work done in less time.

Faster Data Access

Smooth operator

The StorageTek 9840 tape cartridge's mid-point load design delivers an average file access time of just 8 seconds faster than with any other technology.