SANTA CLARA, Calif. March 14, 2006 Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: SUNW) today announced the worldwide availability of its Sun StorageTek T10000 enterprise tape drive, the next-generation of StorageTek tape drives and ideal complement to Sun's premier StorageTek automated tape libraries. With the T10000 tape drive, enterprise customers gain industry-leading performance and data throughput, twice the capacity of earlier StorageTek enterprise drives and advanced data protection and security features -- with the superior reliability that is the hallmark of the StorageTek brand.

Basic drive specs :-

• Cartridge capacity uncompressed: 500GB
• Data transfer rate uncompressed: 120MB/S
• Interface: 2/5Gb Fibre, FICON
• Archive life: 30 years
• Size: 5.25" full height

More details and information can be found at :-

• Storagetek
• Sun
• Sun / 2
• Storagetek PDF