1. Better reliability and uptime
2. Better growth management
3. Better service and support
4. Better feature set
5. Better media and media management

Ready in < 30 Minutes

It takes less than half an hour to install and set up the Spectra T50e library. How? It comes with clear and concise documentation and an intuitive configuration process. It’s compatible with all major backup packages and operating systems, and provides a choice of connectivity options—either direct-connect SCSI or Fibre Channel (iSCSI support on the product roadmap). And physically, the 4U library can be rack-mounted or used on a tabletop.

The Best Library Interface

The BlueScale® Environment is a software solution built into Spectra Logic products that enables the libraries and other backup products to work simply, flexibly, and safely with your data. For over 14 years, BlueScale features have been continuously updated and enhanced to support new technologies to better safeguard your data. From remote management to self-monitoring, encryption, and media management, BlueScale helps you protect your data easier—and better.

The Best Encryption Solution Available

The Spectra T50e is the only library in its class that offers a truly integrated encryption option for data backed up to tape. BlueScale introduces encryption and key management seamlessly into your backup strategy in just a few steps, all with no external hardware or software required. With AES-256 bit BlueScale Encryption and Key Management built into the T50e, encrypting backed up data is secure, efficient, easy to manage—and free.

The Most Energy-Aware Library in its Class

The T50e is a highly dense storage unit that consumes minimal power and allows for you to take full advantage of tape's energy-saving benefits. With more power-centric features than any other comparable solution on the market, the T50e also includes tools to track your power usage. Our patented BlueScale EnergyAudit™ feature allows you to display and record real-time power consumption, giving you greater control of your data center — and budget.

The Best Media and Media Management

Certified Media from Spectra Logic gives you an additional set of unique features and guarantees for protection and ease of use that regular media does not offer, greatly reducing many of the traditional pain-points experienced with managing regular tape. Media Lifecycle Management (MLM) helps you manage your tape media by giving you a tool to proactively detect potential media errors well before they happen. MLM records 30 data points every time a tape is loaded, giving you vital statistical and diagnostic information that helps you proactively manage your tape media throughout its life. By using Media Lifecycle Management and Certified Media together, you get the only comprehensive media protection solution available on the market today—all within the same interface you use to manage your library.

Better Growth Management with CoD and TranScale™

Data growth is extremely hard to forecast. Capacity on Demand (CoD) helps you meet your demand for capacity instantaneously, efficiently, and cost-effectively to meet your growing data storage needs. With CoD, you purchase your T50e with exactly the number of tape slots enabled that you need at that time. As little as ten slots can be made available incrementally through key activation, on-demand and instantaneously. When your capacity requirements outgrow your T50e, Spectra Logic has developed another industry-first concept that protects your original investment in storage — TranScale. Designed for incremental growth, libraries featuring TranScale accommodate storage requirements of organizations in every stage of their growth lifecycle. Making capacity upgrades seamless and affordable, TranScale lets you protect your time and investment in your features, backup environment setup, and training as your storage requirements continue to grow.

Physical Characteristics

• Fits into 4U rack space
• 7" H x 17.5" W x 31.25" D when used as a tabletop unit
• 17.8cm H x 44.5cm W x 73.7cm D
• Weight: 40 lbs / 18 kg

Power Requirements

• Input power: 120/240 VAC
• Power consumption: 265 W maximum

Upgrade Capacity and Performance:

• 10-50 slots
• 1-4 half-height LTO drives
• 1-2 full-height LTO drives
• Up to four Shared Library Services (SLS) partitions

Capacity

*Uncompressed/compressed values

Throughput

Interface Options

• SCSI - LVD
• 1, 2, 4 Gb Fibre Channel (multi-mode)
• Gigabit Ethernet - iSCSI on the product roadmap

Mean Cycles Between Failures

• > 500,000

The following upgrades and accessories are available now to increase capacity, improve performance and simplify operation of your T50e library.

Capacity on Demand

With Capacity on Demand (CoD), the Spectra T50e expands with a software key in increments of five slots up to a maximum of 50 (depending upon drive configuration). You buy only what you need, when you need it and upgrade in minutes.

Redundant Power Supply

A second 240V, hot-swappable power supply is available to increase uptime.

Spectra Certified Media

Spectra Certified Media comes in 10-LTO tape TeraPacks for easy transport with a dust cover for protection. Spectra Media is guaranteed for life against breakage and now supports Spectra's exclusive Media Lifecycle Management, which monitors critical tape and drive status data to proactively reduce failures.

Shared Libarry Services (SLS) Virtualization

With Shared Library Services (SLS), the Spectra T50e can be partitioned into two independent libraries to support encryption, data security or multiple applications.

BlueScale Encryption Professional Edition

The Professional Edition of BlueScale Encryption adds more options to Spectra's Standard Encryption license, which comes included with the Spectra T50e. Pro Encryption allows for the creation of multiple keys, multiple passwords and compression of encrypted data.

Observatory

Observatory enables the control of multiple, remote Spectra T50e libraries (or any Spectra library). 

Drives

These drives are available for immediate expansion of the Spectra T50e, and are hot-swappable. The Spectra T50e can house 2 full-height drives or 4 half-height drives:

• LTO4 Fibre Channel (full height)
• LTO4 SCSI (half height)
• LTO3 SCSI (full height)

Certified Cleaning Media

Like Spectra Certified Data Media our Cleaning Media is guaranteed for life against breakage, is compatible with Spectra Media Lifecycle Management and comes in 5- or 10-tape TeraPacks for easy handling.

Media Shipping Box

The Spectra TeraPack Storage Container holds one Certified Media TeraPack and is Iron Mountain certified.

TranScale™ to the T120

Spectra T50e can "TranScale" to the T120, a 6-drive, 120-slot library running the same BlueScale operating environment. Through this process all capacity, components and software options are transferred to the T120 at no additional cost.

Assisted Self Maintenance

• Assisted Self Maintenance (ASM) Standard puts a spare drive, power supply and SD card on site, ready for immediate replacement should one of these components fail. This plan enables users to replace their own components without waiting for a service call or paying for on-site support. A call to SpectraGuard® support starts the process which concludes with the failed component being shipped back to Spectra Logic in the same box.
• ASM Gold is an uplifted level of ASM which adds a Library Control Module and Robotics Module to the list of components staged on-site.

Cables

• Fibre Cables - connect your Spectra T50e library with a fibre channel interface to its host server(s). Various lengths available.
• SCSI Cables - connect your Spectra T50e library with a SCSI LVD interface to its host server(s). Various lengths available. Also used for daisy chain connection of SCSI drives where appropriate.

Integration with Disk - nTier

Spectra Logic offers disk-based options to complement the Spectra T50e, easily adding de-duplication, VTL, D2D2T to your backup environment. The Spectra nTier disk appliance is designed specifically for backup and archival data, providing an integrated, flexible, and powerful platform that’s designed to work with Spectra libraries.

If you are interested in adding these accessories to your existing Spectra T50e library, contact your Spectra sales representative or visit our online store.

Standard Warranty

Spectra T50e libraries are warranted for one year from date of shipment from the factory. This warranty includes a SpectraGuard Next Business Day service contract. SpectraGuard Next Business Day service includes:

• Access to a SpectraGuard technical representative any business day (not including evenings, weekends, or holidays) from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (customer local time).
• Shipment of a replacement library or part, upon verification that the library has malfunctioned. (If Spectra Logic receives notification before 2:30 p.m. Mountain Time, a replacement part or library can be shipped that day for delivery on the next business day.)

Service Options

The following upgraded service options are available to customers purchasing a Spectra T50e library.

SpectraGuard Next Business Day On Site

• Access to a SpectraGuard technical representative any business day (not including evenings, weekends, or holidays) from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (customer local time).
• Service visit from a field service representative, upon verification that the unit has malfunctioned.  If Spectra Logic is notified by 4:00 p.m. (customer local time), a field service representative will be dispatched that day for arrival the following business day before noon.

SpectraGuard Same Business Day On Site

• Round-the-clock telephone access to a technical support representative – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
• Four-hour response, on-site service 5 days a week from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 pm.

SpectraGuard Four Hour On Site

• 24-hour, seven-day-a-week, 365-day-a-year telephone access to a SpectraGuard technical representative (including evenings, weekends, and holidays).
• Upon verification that the unit has malfunctioned, a field service representative will be dispatched to the site within four hours of the dispatch request.

Self Maintenance Options

Believing that most users would prefer to have control over their library uptime, Spectra Logic products are designed so that all major components are customer replaceable. With Spectra Logic's Assisted Self Maintenance (ASM) program, spare components are placed at your facility, ready to be installed by you, when you need them. More about ASM

The following Assisted Self Maintenance option is available to customers purchasing a Spectra T50e library. This option can be purchased to supplement any of the service options above.

Assisted Self Maintenance Basic

• Select group of field-replaceable parts stocked on-site (drive, power supply, SD card).
• Two free on-line SpectraGuard technical training sessions per year.

Assisted Self Maintenance Gold

• Full set of field-replaceable parts stocked on-site (drive, power supply, SD card, library control module, robotics control module).
• Two free on-line SpectraGuard technical training sessions per year.