Tape Drive Comparison (now with LTO-5)
White Paper Overview (PDF)
This white paper looks at today's tape drive technologies for all sizes of organizations. This white paper
reviews proprietary Oracle/Sun/STK and IBM drives, which up until recently were considered
enterprise, but are now competing relatively poorly with LTO. LTO, including LTO-5 and LTO-4, effectively serves the
enterprise, as well as mid-sized organizations. LTO's advantage is, in part, due to its cost effectiveness;
the proprietary drives are simply not cost competitive.
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Related Spectra Products
Spectra T-Finity Tape Library
- 2 redundant robots per library
- 30,520 slots: 91.6 PB (LTO-5 with 2:1 Compression)
- > 120 drives: over 121 TB/hr
- Redundant Robotics Control Modules (RCM)
- Redundant I/O and Communications Paths
- LTO-3, 4, 5 tape drives
- SDLT and SAIT supported for legacy media restore
Spectra T950 Tape Library
- Minimum configuration has as few as 100 slots and two drives
- Scale up to as many as 10,050 slots
- Scale up to as many as 120 drives
- Cascades to eight frames with single robotic mechanism
- Mixed media including LTO, SAIT, and SDLT
T-Series Mid-Range Tape Libraries (T200/T380/T680)
- Tape Slots: up to 680
- Tape Drives: up to 24
- Mixed media including LTO-3, LTO-4 and LTO-5
- TranScale™ allows you to upgrade to a larger library while preserving your investment
Spectra T120 Tape Library
- Up to 120 slots and 6 full-height drives in one rack-mount library unit
- Mixed half-inch media - LTO-3, LTO-4, LTO-5
- Automatic data encryption with BlueScale Encryption
Spectra T50e Tape Library
- Enterprise-level features including BlueScale Encryption and Media Lifecycle Management
- Can be configured from 10 to 50 slots
- Available with two full-height drives or four half-height drives
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