Highlights

  • Enterprise library which automates tape
  • Start with 100 tape slots and scale up to as many as 10,050 slots
  • Scale up to 120 drives
  • Cascade up to eight frames with a single robotic mechanism, which increases reliability and lowers cost.
  • Support mixed media, within a single enclosure, of any combination of LTO, SAIT, and SDLT tape technologies.
  • Provide controller-based (QIP) connectivity, supporting Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet with iSCSI, or Fibre Channel Direct connect drives

Features and Benefits

The T950 library's BlueScale 10 environment is the library's core intelligence. It provides the intelligence in the T950's current innovation features as well as supporting new technologies as they evolve.

BlueScale Technology supports:

  • Hardware-based encryption through our QIP or LTO4 hardware and total key management, with no external hardware or software
  • Partitioning through Shared Library Services (SLS) without external hardware or software
  • Capacity on Demand (CoD), which lets you add capacity as you need it and when you need it, simply by logging onto the Spectra Logic Web site and requesting a key that you use to enable new slots
  • Hot-swap drives and controllers, redundant components, and high-density modular design
  • Guaranteed on-time support, including an assisted self-maintenance (ASM) option and AutoSupport
  • Compatible with all major operating systems, backup software packages, and standard data center racks
  • The T950 library supplies a one-step encryption and backup process, BlueScale Encryption-letting you protect your data using federally-approved AES-256 encryption while backing up your data. BlueScale Encryption is the only truly integrated encryption for data stored on tape
  • Affordably add encryption to your back up strategy, with no changes to back up policies and no additional hardware or software
  • Helps to manage your tape media by providing tools to proactively detect potential media errors

Spectra T950 Video


Physical Characteristics

  • 1 to 8 frames
  • Single frame dimensions: H 78.77 in, W 30.63 in, D 43.21 in (H 200.1 cm, W 77.8 cm, D 109.8 cm)
  • Weights:
    • Base Frame (no drives or media) - 800 lbs/362 kg
    • Drive Expansion Frame (no drives or media) - 750 lbs/340 kg
    • Media Expansion Frame (no media) - 700 lbs/317kg
    • Drive/Sled - 12 lbs/5 kg
    • TeraPack Case (with media) - 6 lbs/3 kg

Power Requirements

  • Input Power: 8.2-6.8 Amps (RMS) at 200-240 VAC, 50/60 Hz (max config)
  • Heat Dissipation: 5,898 BTU/h (24 drives)

Capacity

  • Frames: 1 to 8
  • Tape Slots: 100 to 10,500
  • Tape Drives: 2 to 120
One Frame
Drive Type¹ Max Drives Max Cartridges Max Capacity* Max Throughput*
LTO-4 24 950 1,520 TB 20.7 TB/hr
LTO-3 24 950 664 TB 13.8 TB/hr
Eight Frames
Drive Type¹ Max Drives Max Cartridges Max Capacity* Max Throughput*
LTO-4 120 10,500 16.1 Petabytes 103.7 TB/hr
LTO-3 120 10,500 4.6 Petabytes 69.1 TB/hr

¹ SDLT also available     * Values calculated using data compression

Interface Options

  • Fibre Channel - 2 GB/s or 4 GB/s
  • Gigabit Ethernet - iSCSI

Mean Cycles Between Failures

  • 2,000,000