-Storage Tek Tape Subsystems-
L5500 Tape Library

The StorageTek L5500 tape library can consolidate large open systems tape storage with nearly infinite scalability. The L5500 is designed to replace multiple small libraries with a single, easy to manage consolidated library that can scale up to 13.2 PB (native). It is virtually impossible to outgrow this library's capacity - or throughput of over 65 TB per hour. Along with ensuring high throughput to shrink backup windows and increase availability, it can be connected to a wide variety of servers and applications, allowing your business to keep pace with ever-changing business demands.

• Number of cartridge slots--1500, 2000, 2500, 3000, 3500, 4000, 4500, 5000 or 5500 per library storage module (LSM) for configurations supporting only LTO Ultrium or

  1,000 T9840/T9940 and 1,000 LTO Ultrium or
  1,500 T9840/T9940 and 1,500 LTO Ultrium or
  2,000 T9840/T9940 and 2,000 LTO Ultrium or
  3,500 T9840/T9940 and 2,000 LTO Ultrium or
  2,000 T9840/T9940 and 3,500 LTO Ultrium

• Up to 132,000 per automated cartridge system (24 LSMs) under ACSLS control

Number of tape drives/types

• Up to four drive frames per LSM (standalone)
• Up to two drive frames per LSM in a dense pack configuration
• Each drive frame can be any of the following:
  1. One to twenty T9840/T9940 drives per drive frame
  2. One to twenty LTO Ultrium drives per frame
  3. One to twenty T9840/T9940/LTO Ultrium drives per frame w/ a max of seventeen T9840/T9940 drives in a mixed media frame

Capacity and performance

• Capacity, native (uncompressed)
  (maximum configurations)

• Throughput per hour, native
  (maximum configurations)

Please call MIS for more information on Storage Tek at 1-888-3ASK-MIS or sales@misrg.com.