Quantum Travan Media
An Affordable Solution Built Upon a Solid Heritage of Data Protection for Home, Small Business and Mobile
Travan 20 Media Cartridge
Overview:
Travan technology is embraced by customers demanding a unique combination of demonstrated reliability, high performance and small footprint without sacrificing budgets or storage strategies.
Quantum Travan media cartridges are manufactured to the highest industry standards for quality and reliability, ensuring low error rates, high performance and long-term durability. This family offers you more choices to manage and archive your data with confidence.
Travan technology is an ideal solution to meet the expanding storage and archival requirements of mission critical data, at a price point that fits into the most discerning budgets. Being affordable and easy to use, Travan technology has been installed in home offices, small to medium businesses (SMB) and mobile computing environments around the world.
Protecting user investments in technology, data integrity and disaster recovery are small but very important elements of data management strategies. Quantum's dry process Travan cleaning cartridges are an easy, efficient means to lessen the debris build up that impacts data reliability. These specially designed cartridges help extend system life and minimize service calls. Standard business practices conclude that frequently used drives require frequent cleaning. Always clean the drive after the first use of a brand new data cartridge.
With a storage capacity ranging from 10GB native and 40GB compressed in combination with built-in cartridge reliability features focusing on minimal tape stress, uniform head-to-tape contact, and decreased particulate exposure make Travan an extremely reliable solution for home and SMB market requirements. Quantum Travan data and cleaning cartridges are fully compatible with Travan drives in the marketplace.
Features & Benefits
- High Storage Capacity – up to 20GB native and up to 40GB compressed1
- Fast Transfer Rate – up to 8MB/sec1 for backing up data, creating an archive or downloading files from the Internet
- Field Proven Reliability – technologically advanced cartridge provides thermal stability, static dissipation and uniform head-to-tape contact that maximizes data reliability
1 Based on 2:1 compression
Specifications:
| Quantum Travan Media Specifications | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Performance | |||
| Travan 20 | Travan 40 | Travan Cleaning | |
| Capacity (Native/Compressed) |
10/20 GB | 20/40 GB | -- |
| Durability | 10,000 full tape passes | 10,000 full tape passes | -- |
| Number of Uses | Up to 75 | Up to 75 | Up to 30 cleanings |
| Archive Life | 10 years | 10 years | -- |
| Physical Characteristics | |||
| Travan 20 | Travan 40 | Travan Cleaning | |
| Tape Width | 8mm | 8mm | 8mm |
| Tape Thickness | 7.9um | 7.9um | 7.9um |
| Tape Length | 228.6M/750FT | 228.6M/750FT | 228.6M / 750FT |
| Cartridge Dimensions | |||
| Travan 20 | Travan 40 | Travan Cleaning | |
| Width (in/mm) | 3.66/93 | 3.66/93 | 3.66/93 |
| Height (in/mm) | 0.575/14.6 | 0.575/14.6 | 0.575/14.6 |
| Length (in/mm) | 2.835/72 | 2.835/72 | 2.835/72 |
| Operating Environment | |||
| Temperature ˚F (˚C) | 41˚ to 104˚ (5˚ to 40˚) | 41˚ to 104˚ (5˚ to 40˚) | 41˚ to 104˚ (5˚ to 40˚) |
| Humidity | 20 to 80% | 20 to 80% | 20 to 80% |
| Storage Environment | |||
| Travan 20 | Travan 40 | Travan Cleaning | |
| Archive Storage ˚F (˚C) | 73˚ +/- 9˚ (23˚ +/- 5˚) | 73˚ +/- 9˚ (23˚ +/- 5˚) | -- |
| Non-Archive Storage ˚F (˚C) | 60˚ to 90˚ (16˚ to 32˚) | 60˚ to 90˚ (16˚ to 32˚) | 60˚ to 90˚ (16˚ to 32˚) |
| Archive Humidity | 40 to 60% | 40 to 60% | -- |
| Non-Archive Humidity | 20 to 80% | 20 to 80% | 20 to 80% |
| Compatibility | |||
| Travan 20 | Travan 40 | Travan Cleaning | |
| Travan 20 drives (Read Write), Travan 40 drives (Read only) | Travan 40 drives (Read Write) | Travan 40, Travan 20, Travan 8 | |
1 Based on 2:1 compression
Documentation:
Download the Quantum Travan Media Datasheet (PDF).