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Tape Drives, Autoloaders & Libraries

Tape Drives/Libraries by Manufacturer

 

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Tape Drives  

9840 T9840B T9940 T9940B
LTO Ultrium SDLT DLT1 Timberline 9490 Cartridge System

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Tape Libraries
Product Number of cartridge slots Number of tape drives / types Supported host platforms
L-Series
L20 tape library 10, 20
 
1-2 LTO Gen 1, 2, 3; SDLT 320, SDLT 600 drives or a combination
 
UNIX, Windows NT, Novell NetWare
 
L40 tape library 20, 40
 
1-4 LTO Gen 1, 2, 3, SDLT 320, SDLT 600 drives or a combination
 
UNIX, Linux, Windows NT, Novell NetWare
 
L80 tape library 40, 60, 80
 
1-8 LTO Gen 1, 2, 3; SDLT 320 and 600 drives or a combination
 
UNIX, Linux, Windows NT, Novell NetWare
 
L180 tape library 84, 140, 174 plus six slots for diagnostic/cleaning cartridges
 
1-6 T9840 or T9940 drives
1-10 LTO Gen 2, Gen 3, SDLT 320 and 600
 
UNIX, Windows NT
 
L700e (dual frame) library 216, 384, 678, 882, 1,050, 1,344 (dual frame)
 
1-24 T9840 and T9940 drives
1-40 LTO Gen 2 and 3, SDLT 320 and 600 drives or a combination
 
UNIX, Windows NT
 
L700e (single frame) library 216, 384, 678 (single frame)
 
1-12 T9840 and T9940 drives
1-20 LTO Gen 2 and 3, SDLT 320 and 600 drives or a combination
 
UNIX, Windows NT
 
L1400M tape library 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700 (single-frame)
800, 900, 1000, 1100, 1200, 1300, 1344 (dual-frame)
 
1–12 T9840 and T9940 drives (single-frame)
1–20 LTO Gen 2 and 3, SDLT 320 and 600 drives or a combination (single-frame)
1–24 T9840 and T9940 drives (dual-frame)
1–40 LTO Gen 2 and 3, SDLT 320 and 600 drives or a combination (dual-frame)
 
UNIX, Windows NT, Novell, Linux
 
Streamline™ Series
SL8500 (min config) library Starts at 1,448 carts customer-usable slots
 
Up to 64 drives of any combination of supported drives, including:
T9840 ESCON, Fibre Channel and FICON, T9940 ESCON, Fibre Channel and FICON, LTO Ultrium Generation Fibre Channel, SDLT Fibre Channel
 
All major operating systems
 
SL8500 (max config of 32 libraries) 300,000 customer-usable slots
 
Up to 2,048 drives of any combination of supported drives, including:
T9840 ESCON, Fibre Channel and FICON, T9940 ESCON, Fibre Channel and FICON, LTO Ultrium Generation Fibre Channel, SDLT Fibre Channel
 
All major operating systems
 
StreamLine SL500 modular library system 30-575 slots
24-494 slots mixed media
Base module: 30-50 LTO cartridge slots, 24-42 slots mixed media
Drive expansion module: 90 additional slots, 77 additional slots mixed media (without CAP)
Cartridge expansion module: 120 additional LTO cartridge slots, 113 additional slots mixed media (without CAP)
 
1-18 LTO 2/3 or SDLT 320/600
 
UNIX, Windows NT, Linux
 
TimberWolf
TimberWolf 9740 Tape library 326 or 494 (with expansion door)
1-6 LSMs
 
1-10 T9840, T9940, DLT 7000 and/or DLT 4000 or 1-4 or 2-4 TimberLine 9490
 
All major operating systems

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Tape Libraries L20 L40 L80 L180 L700/700e L5500 9730 9738 9740 9310
Mixed Media Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes
Min. Slots 10 20 40 74 216 1500 18 18 326 2000
Max. Slots 20 40 80 174 1344 5500(6) 30 30 494(3) 6000(4)
Max. # of Drives 2 4 8 6,10(1) 24,40(2) 80(7) 4 2 10 80(5)

Tape Matrix

Tape Drives comparison
Product Capacity, native (uncompressed) Average file access time (first file) Data transfer rate, native (uncompressed)
T-Series
T9840A 20 GB
 
8 sec
 
10 MB/sec
 
T9840B 20 GB
 
8 sec
 
19 MB/sec
 
T9840C 40 GB
 
8 sec
 
30 MB/sec
 
T9940A 60 GB
 
41 sec
 
10 MB/sec
 
T9940B 200 GB
 
41 sec
 
30 MB/sec
 
LTO Ultrium
LTO Gen 1 100 GB
 
86-96 sec
 
15–16 MB/sec
 
LTO Gen 2 200 GB
 
64 –75 sec
 
32–35 MB/sec
 
LTO Gen 3 400 GB
 
72 sec
 
80 MB/sec
 
SDLT
SDLT 320 160 GB
 
82 sec
 
16 MB/sec
 
SDLT 600 300 GB
 
79 sec
 
36 MB/sec

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