Sun StorageTek L700e Tape Library

Features and Benefits

No Longer Orderable

Welcome change and effortlessly customize the L700e to meet exact specifications as requirements change. It's value you can count on with the L700e.


Key Benefits

  • Grow as business grows by increasing storage capacity with the L700e pass-through-port, growing form 678 cartridges up to 1,344 cartridges
  • Adapt the L700e to the performance and capacity needed, when it’s needed, with Sun’s Any Cartridge Any Slot technology
  • Simplify remote management using Sun’s StorageTek Library Manager or ACSLS Manager software.

Astounding flexibility and speed

A simpler life

Never change tape slots, software or robotics. The L700e library provides concurrent support for multiple tape drive technologies and multiple cartridge types.

Faster backup, restore and archiving

With a maximum dual-frame configuration, the L700e library moves data at rates as high as 10.4 terabytes per hour. The dramatic throughput helps to accelerate backup, restore and archiving.

Increased capacity

A unique pass-through port enables connection between two L700e tape libraries, allowing expansion to 1,344 cartridge slots, essentially doubling capacity.


Unlimited access and SAN-ready

Speed it up

The L700e library has a native two-gigabit Fibre Channel optical interface. Combine it with native two-gigabit Fibre Channel Sun StorageTek T10000, T9840 and T9940 tape drives and it’s an all-Fibre solution to speed data access.

Enjoy the benefits of a SAN

The L700e’s two-gigabit Fibre Channel connectivity and support for dynamic world wide naming (dWWN) for the library and Fibre Channel drives also make it a SAN-ready solution.


Choices provide customization

Mixed media support

Put data in the right device at the right time with concurrent support of multiple tape drive technologies, including the Sun StorageTek T9840 and T9940 tape drives as well as LTO Ultrium and SDLT tape drives.

Remote management capabilities

Effective library management is performed through a choice of the Sun StorageTek Library Management System (HMLS) software or the Sun StorageTek ACSLS Manager software.