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Library Characteristics
99ESL E-Series Tape Library User’s Guide
Performance and reliability characteristics
Table 19 and Table 20 list performance and reliability characteristics of the
library.
Table 19: Performance characteristics
Table 20: Reliability characteristics
Note: Tape drive and media specifications are described in “Tape drives” on page 22.
Average Swap
Time
18 to 20 seconds, consisting of two Move Medium commands
Inventory
Less than 3 minutes, fully loaded with labeled cartridges
MTBF
250,000 power-on hours
MSBF
1 million load/unload cycles
MTTR
Less than 30 minutes