High-Tech Computer Experts  
                  Exabyte Eliant 820 8mm Tape Drive
HTCE Home      E-mail us      Product Information      Specifications        New Accounts

Product Information                                                                                                                                                                   High-Tech #T82E556
Exabyte's new Eliant 820 tape drive features 14-gigabyte capacity* and data transfer rates of up to 120 megabytes per minute*. Laboratory tested and certified for optimum compatibility, the Eliant 820 integrates easily within the most popular environments and operating systems, including NetWare, NT and UNIX.  With cabling, documentation, two-year, extendible warranty and worldwide support.
 
Typical application: UNIX, NetWare and NT midrange networks; mixed workstation.

The Eliant 820 is a dependable, cost-effective backup system that keeps pace with shrinking backup windows. With its remarkably fast data transfer rate, the Eliant 820 can back up 14 gigabytes of data in less than two hours.

Consistently reliable, compatible and economical, Exabyte tape drives integrate easily into virtually any system architecture. Exabyte has shipped more 8mm tape drives than any other company and today the installed base of Exabyte tape drives and libraries exceeds one million units. The world's leading computer manufacturers and resellers acknowledge Exabyte as the premiere provider of tape storage technologies.
 

          Eliant 820 8mm Tape Drive
          Features

 
FEATURE                                                                                                         BENEFIT
Rapid data transfers  Back up 14 GB in less than two hours
Laboratory tested and certified Superior hardware, software and O/S compatibility
SCSI-2 interface Easy integration 
Part of the Exabyte 8mm product family Compatible with an installed base of more than one million drives and libraries 
Two-year, extendible warranty Dependability and low cost of ownership
 

 

Product Specifications
Capacity 
14 GB, compressed 
  7 GB, uncompressed 
Environmental 
Operating temperature: 
     5° C to 40° C (41° F to 104° F) 
Nonoperating temperature: 
     - 40° C to 60° C (-40° F to 140° F) 
Relative humidity, noncondensing, operating: 
     20% to 80% 
Performance 
Transfer rate, sustained: 
      2 MB per second, compressed 
      1 MB per second, uncompressed 
Transfer rate, burst: 
   2.5 MB per second, asynchronous 
      5 MB per second, synchronous 
Search rate: 
    60 MB per second, compressed 
    30 MB per second, uncompressed 
Power 
Internal: 
    +5 VDC, +12 VDC 
    11 watts typical 
External: 
    Universal auto-switching 
    (100/240 VAC) 
Interface 
SCSI-2 
Single-ended or differential 
Dimensions (HxWxD) 
Internal: 
   1.6 in. x 5.8 in. x 8 in. 
   4.1 cm x 14.6 cm x 20.3 cm 
External: 
    3 in. x 9 in. x 11 in. 
    7.6 cm x 22.9 cm x 27.9 cm 
Shipping package: 
Internal: 
    8.5 in. x 10.75 in. x 13.5 in. 
    21.6 cm x 27.3 cm x 34.3 cm 
External: 
    10.8 in. x 16.3 in x 17.8 in. 
    27.0 cm x 41.0 cm x 45.0 cm 
Buffer size 
1 MB 
Weight 
Internal: 
    2.6 lbs./1.2 kg. 
External: 
    8 lbs./3.6 kg 
Shipping package: 
Internal: 
    4.5 lbs./2.0 kg. 
External: 
    12.4 lbs./5.6 kg 
Data Integrity 
BER < 1 in 1017 
Reed-Solomon ECC 
Onboard error recovery 
Reliability 
MTBF: 200,000 hours 
Read-after-write verification 
Recording Method 
8mm helical scan 
Read and Write Formats 
Read and write: 8500 series and 8500c series 
Read: 8200 series 
Agency Certifications 
UL, CSA, VDE, IEC, FCC, TUV, CISPR 
* "Compressed" specifications assume a 2:1 compression ratio.
Compression capacity and throughput will vary dependent upon type of data.
All specifications are subject to change without notice.
 

Recommended Media
EXATAPETM 8mm 160mXL and Exabyte Premium Cleaning Cartridge
 
HTCE Product ID #T82E556
Back to the top of the page