Specifications
The SL8500's advanced RaceTrack robotics, running on a new oval path layout, accelerate tape loading to 1000 exchanges per hour. And its Any Cartridge Any Slot technology lets you mix native Fibre Channel, FICON, and ESCON drives for sharing data across your supercomputer, mainframe, UNIX, Linux, and NT systems, with no partitions or choose to partition and share. All with your current backup applications. Once you adopt this space-saving modular tape library system, you're ready for the future.
Key Specifications
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Scale from 1,448 slots to 70,000 slots1 with no system downtime.
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Supports a combination of 64 to 4481 tape drives including the Sun StorageTek T10000, T9840, T9940 lines of tape drives along with LTO, SDLT, and DLT-S4 tape drives.
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Redundant and hot-swap robotics, power and electronic components maximize availability.
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Performance
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SL8500 (minimum configuration)
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SL8500 (maximum configuration of 7 libraries)1
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Throughput per hour, native (uncompressed)
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- T10000B (64 drives, 120 MB/sec) – 27.6 TB/hr
- T10000 (64 drives, 120 MB/sec) – 27.6 TB/hr
- T9840D (64 drives, 30 MB/sec) – 6.9 TB/hr
- T9840C (64 drives, 30 MB/sec) – 6.9 TB/hr
- LTO 4 (64 drives, 120 MB/sec) – 27.6 TB/hr
- LTO 3 (64 drives, 80 MB/sec) – 18.4 TB/hr
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- T10000B (448 drives, 120 MB/sec) 193.2 TB/hr
- T10000 (448 drives, 120 MB/sec) 193.2 TB/hr
- T9840D (448 drives, 30 MB/sec) – 48.3 TB/hr
- T9840C (448 drives, 30 MB/sec) – 48.3 TB/hr
- LTO 4 (448 drives, 120 MB/sec) – 193.2 TB/hr
- LTO 3 (448 drives, 80 MB/sec) – 128.8 TB/hr
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Audit time (with redundant HandBots)
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<12 min
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<40 min
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Average cell to drive time per HandBot
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<11 sec per HandBot
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<11 sec per HandBot
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Capacity
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SL8500 (minimum configuration)
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SL8500 (maximum configuration of 7 libraries)1
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Capacity, native (uncompressed)
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- T10000B (1,448 carts, 1 TB/cart) – 1.4 PB
- T10000 (1,448 carts, 500 GB/cart) – 724 TB
- T9840D (1,448 carts, 75 GB/cart) – 108.6 TB
- T9840C (1,448 carts, 40 GB/cart) – 58 TB
- LTO 4 (1,448 carts, 800 GB/cart) – 1.16 PB
- LTO 3 (1,448 carts, 400 GB/cart) – 579 TB
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- T10000B (70,000 carts, 1 TB/cart) – 70 PB
- T10000 (70,000 carts, 500 GB/cart) – 35 PB
- T9840D (70,000 carts, 75 GB/cart) – 5.25 PB
- T9840C (70,000 carts, 40 GB/cart) – 2.8 PB
- LTO 4 (70,000 carts, 800 GB/cart) – 56 PB
- LTO 3 (70,000 carts, 400 GB/cart) – 28 PB
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Number of cartridge slots
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Starts at 1,448 customer-usable slots
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70,000 customer-usable slots
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Number of tape drives/types
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Up to 64 drives of any combination of supported drives, including: T10000, Fibre Channel and FICON, T9840 ESCON, Fibre Channel and FICON, T9940 ESCON, Fibre Channel and FICON, LTO Fibre Channel, SDLT Fibre Channel, DLT-S4 Fibre Channel
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Up to 448 drives of any combination of supported drives, including: T10000 Fibre Channel and FICON, T9840 ESCON, Fibre Channel and FICON, T9940 ESCON, Fibre Channel and FICON, LTO Fibre Channel, SDLT Fibre Channel, DLT-S4 Fibre Channel
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Cartridge access port (CAP)
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Standard 39-cartridge slot CAP, optional 39 additional slots (78 total)
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Up to 546 cartridge slots
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Availability
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Non-disruptive serviceability
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Standard N+1 power for drives, robotics and library electronics that can be replaced while the library is operating.
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Mean exchanges/swaps between failure (MTBF/MSBF)
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2,000,000 per HandBot
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Compatibility
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Supported host platforms
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A wide variety, including SolarisTM, z/OS, AS/400, AIX, HPUX, Windows, Linux. Please check with your Sun account rep for your specific environment.
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Robotics control interfaces
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TCP/IP (IEEE 802.3, 100 baseT, half-duplex)
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Any Cartridge Any Slot technology
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Any supported cartridge type can be placed in any cell, no partitions or special drive or cartridge frames are required.
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Management
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Digital vision system
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Unique digital vision camera system performs continuous calibration and reads bar codes.
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Operator panel
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Standard TCP/IP remote monitoring
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Automatic clean
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Additional dedicated cleaning cartridge slots are included for tape drive cleaning for multiple drive types by library or software command
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Automatic self-discovery
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Auto-discovery and auto-configuration for all drive, media types, slots, and CAP
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Continuous automation calibration
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No periodic maintenance or alignment required
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Mechanical (Library)
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SL8500 (minimum configuration)
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SL8500 (maximum configuration of 7 libraries)1
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Height
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93.15 in. (236.6 cm)
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93.15 in. (236.6 cm)
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Depth
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109 in. (276.9 cm)
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296.5 in. (753.0 cm)
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Width
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67.3 in. (170.81 cm)
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511.3 in. (1298.7 cm)
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Weight (library only)
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4,309 lb (1,954 kg)
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247,830 lb (112,423 kg)
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Environmental
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Temperature (operating)
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+60° to +90° F (+16° to +32° C)
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Temperature (non-operating)
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+40° to +90° F (+4° to +32° C)
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Relative humidity (operating)
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20% to 80%
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Relative humidity (non-operating)
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20% to 80%
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Power
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Voltage
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Choice of 220–240 VAC @ 50–60 Hz single phase or three phase (Delta, Wye or SUVA) — optional redundant inputs of any of the above
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Drives
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Drive power consumption varies (refer to individual drive specifications)
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Power consumption/dissipation
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Varies by configuration
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Regulatory compliance
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Safety
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UL 1950; CAN/CSA 22.2 No. 950; EN60950
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Emissions
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FCC (47 CFR 15, Subpart B) Class A; CE (EN55022 Class A, EN55024, EN61000-3-2, EN61000-3-3)VCCI (CISPR 22) Class A; Canada (ICES-003) Class A
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Immunity
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European Union CE immunity standards (CISPR24/EN55024)
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1Future scalability is planned beyond 70,000 tape slots.
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