Tape Drive Technology Comparison
White Paper Overview (PDF)
This white paper looks at today's tape technologies for all sizes of organizations, excluding only
the very low end that are not suitable for business and organizational storage. This white paper
reviews proprietary Sun/STK and IBM drives, which up until recently were considered
enterprise, but are now competing relatively poorly with LTO. LTO effectively serves the
enterprise, as well as mid-range organizations. LTO's advantage is, in part, due to its costeffectiveness;
the proprietary drives are simply not cost competitive.
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Related Spectra Products
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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