Enviromental operational conditions for tape equipment

Purpose

This page collects the requirements from all vendors for enviromental conditions in a room with tape equipment.

Details

For tape drives and libraries only the operating conditions are shown in this table. For non-operating (storage) information, see the source.

For tape media, long term archive operating conditions are shown in this table. This is because in a large archive, it is common that tapes are not accessed for a year or more. For more details, see the source.

Equipment	Temperature Range (in Celsius)	Humidity Range (relative - in %)	Source
Libraries
Oracle StorageTek SL8500	+16 to +32	20 - 80	Oracle
IBM TS3500	+16 to +32	20 - 80	IBM
Drives
LTO3	+10 to +38	20 - 80	Oracle
LTO4	+10 to +38	20 - 80	IBM
LTO5	+10 to +40	20 - 80	Quantum
Oracle StorageTek T10000B	+10 to +40	20 - 80	Oracle
IBM TS1130	+16 to +32	20 - 80	IBM
Media (long term archive)
LTO	+16 to +32	20 - 80	FujiFilm
Oracle StorageTek T10000	+15 to +26	15 - 50	Oracle
IBM 3592	+16 to +32	20 - 80	IBM

-- VladimirBahyl - Jul-2010