Spectra T950 Tape Library

High Performance

Spectra T950 Tape Library, from robotics, to drives, to software, to media offers performance innovations in automated tape technologies.

At maximum drive configuration, transfer data up to 172.8 TB per hour using LTO-9 technology or IBM TS1170 technology.

High Capacity

When data center real-estate counts, the Spectra T950 Tape Library offers you unsurpassed storage density and a small footprint through a unique and highly efficient library design built to fit into a standard rack-row layout. Also, it provides more storage capacity in less floor space.

Using innovative shelves instead of slots and TeraPack containers in place of individual cartridges, the Spectra T950 Tape Library uses less floor space.

Only buy what you need today and add storage capacity as you need it. Upgrade capacity in intervals of 10 LTO or 9 enterprise tape slots at a time. Tape consolidation through capacity, performance, partitioning, and reporting results in a lower TCO.

With LTO-9 technology, you can store over 180 PB (450.9 PB compressed) of data at the maximum slot configuration and capacity can range from 50 to 10,020 slots and 1 to 120 drives.

With TS1170 technology, you can store over 380.7 PB (1.1 EB compressed) of data at the maximum slot configuration and capacity can range from 45 to 7614 slots and 1 to 120 drives.

Built-in Flexibility

Spectra T950 Tape Libraries, can operate either LTO-9, LTO-8, LTO-7, or LTO-6 tape drives or TS1170, TS1160 or TS1150 tape technologies. Paired with extensive software and hardware partners, organizations can develop customized workflows for every situation.

Thin provisioning improves the available storage in the partitions of a tape library. Administrators can change the size of a partition in the library without reconfiguring the entire library. It provides virtual storage capacity for simplified administration, reducing downtime and costs.

Empty TeraPacks provide a means to import tape media, already written with data, into a new library for continued use or migration. TeraPacks can also provide additional storage outside of the library.

High Reliability

Spectra T950 Tape Library offers an advanced suite of standard features that allow you to actively check data already written to tape. Data Integrity Verification examines media health before and after data writes, when enabled. Integrated BlueScale Encryption provides automatic data protection.

PreScan checks each imported tape and verifies that the tape can be safely written to. QuickScan scans a tape uni-directionally to provide a rapid indicator of integrity of data written. FullScan confirms that there are no media errors on the tape by reading the entire tape.

The library provides a high level of encryption security, with compression, for strong backup data privacy to deliver confidential information and address compliance quickly. Supports WORM media (using LTO-9, LTO-8, LTO-7, or LTO-6) providing a fail-safe method for permanently storing data records.

By using the new HPE Spectra SWARM Ethernet to SAS bridge in a Spectra T950 Tape Library, there is now an option for connecting LTO drives over an Ethernet interface from a host.