StorageTek Tape Drives and Tape Libraries

No matter what your data storage needs or your business size, StorageTek® offers innovative, right-sized tape solutions - and related storage expertise - to help you keep your company’s data safe and useful.

Sun StorageTek Tape Drives

Model	Description	Request a Quote
STORAGETEK T9840A	ULTRA SCSI, ESCON, FIBRE CHANNEL 20GB Native, Transfer Rate 10MB/sec
STORAGETEK T9840B	FICON, ESCON, FIBRE CHANNEL 20GB Native, Transfer Rate 19MB/sec
STORAGETEK T9840C	FICON, ESCON, FIBRE CHANNEL 20GB Native, Transfer Rate 30MB/sec
STORAGETEK T9840D	FICON, ESCON, FIBRE CHANNEL 75GB Native, Transfer Rate 16.5MB/sec
STORAGETEK T9940A	ULTRA SCSI, ESCON, FIBRE CHANNEL 60GB Native, Transfer Rate 10MB/sec
STORAGETEK T9940B	FICON, ESCON, FIBRE CHANNEL 200GB Native, Transfer Rate 30MB/sec
STORAGETEK T10000	FICON, FIBRE CHANNEL 500GB Native, Transfer Rate 120MB/sec
STORAGETEK T10000B	FICON, FIBRE CHANNEL 1TGB Native, Transfer Rate 120MB/sec

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 Request a Quote/Information
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 Request a Quote/Information
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
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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)
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Tape Matrix

Tape Drives comparison
Product	Capacity, native (uncompressed)	Average file access time (first file)	Data transfer rate, native (uncompressed)
T-Series Request a Quote/Information
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 Request a Quote/Information
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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