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Sun StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System

From $195,830. (US)

Tech Specs

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

Scale from 1,448 slots to 70,000 slots¹ with no system downtime.
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.
Redundant and hot-swap robotics, power and electronic components maximize availability.

Performance
	SL8500 (minimum configuration)	SL8500 (maximum configuration of 7 libraries)¹
Throughput per hour, native (uncompressed)	T10000B (64 drives, 120 MB/sec) – 27.6 TB/hr T10000 (64 drives, 120 MB/sec) – 27.6 TB/hr T9840C (64 drives, 30 MB/sec) – 6.9 TB/hr T9840B (64 drives, 19 MB/sec) – 4.4 TB/hr T9840A (64 drives, 10 MB/sec) – 2.3 TB/hr T9940B (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 DLT-S4 (64 drives, 60 MB/sec) – 13.8 TB/hr SDLT 600 (64 drives, 36 MB/sec) – 8.3 TB/hr	T10000B (448 drives, 120 MB/sec) 193.2 TB/hr T10000 (448 drives, 120 MB/sec) 193.2 TB/hr T9840C (448 drives, 30 MB/sec) – 48.3 TB/hr T9840B (448 drives, 19 MB/sec) – 30.8 TB/hr T9840A (448 drives, 10 MB/sec) – 16.1 TB/hr T9940B (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 DLT-S4 (448 drives, 60 MB/sec) – 96.6 TB/hr SDLT 600 (448 drives, 36 MB/sec) – 58.1 TB/hr

Audit time (with redundant HandBots)	<12 min	<40 min

Average cell to drive time per HandBot	<11 sec per HandBot	<11 sec per HandBot
Capacity
	SL8500 (minimum configuration)	SL8500 (maximum configuration of 7 libraries)¹
Capacity, native (uncompressed)	T10000B (1,448 carts, 1 TB/cart) – 1.4 PB T10000 (1,448 carts, 500 GB/cart) – 724 TB T9840C (1,448 carts, 40 GB/cart) – 58 TB T9840B (1,448 carts, 20 GB/cart) – 29 TB T9840A (1,448 carts, 20 GB/cart) – 29 TB T9940B (1,448 carts, 200 GB/cart) – 290 TB LTO 3 (1,448 carts, 400 GB/cart) – 579 TB LTO 4 (1,448 carts, 800 GB/cart) – 1.16 PB SDLT 600 (1,448 carts, 300 GB/cart) – 434 TB DLT-S4 (1,448 carts, 800 GB/cart) – 1.16 PB	T10000B (70,000 carts, 1 TB/cart) – 70 PB T10000 (70,000 carts, 500 GB/cart) – 35 PB T9840C (70,000 carts, 40 GB/cart) – 2.8 PB T9840B (70,000 carts, 20 GB/cart) – 1.4 PB T9840A (70,000 carts, 20 GB/cart) – 1.4 PB T9940B (70,000 carts, 200 GB/cart) – 14 PB LTO 4 (70,000 carts, 800 GB/cart) – 56 PB LTO 3 (70,000 carts, 400 GB/cart) – 28 PB DLT-S4 (70,000 carts, 800 GB/cart) – 56 PB SDLT 600 (70,000 carts, 300 GB/cart) – 21 PB

Number of cartridge slots	Starts at 1,448 customer-usable slots	70,000 customer-usable slots

Number of tape drives/types	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	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

Cartridge access port (CAP)	Standard 39-cartridge slot CAP, optional 39 additional slots (78 total)	Up to 546 cartridge slots
Availability
Non-disruptive serviceability	Standard N+1 power for drives, robotics and library electronics that can be replaced while the library is operating.

Mean exchanges/swaps between failure (MTBF/MSBF)	2,000,000 per HandBot
Compatibility
Supported host platforms	A wide variety, including SolarisTM, z/OS, AS/400, AIX, HPUX, Windows, Linux. Please check with your Sun account rep for your specific environment.

Robotics control interfaces	TCP/IP (IEEE 802.3, 100 baseT, half-duplex)

Any Cartridge Any Slot technology	Any supported cartridge type can be placed in any cell, no partitions or special drive or cartridge frames are required.
Management
Digital vision system	Unique digital vision camera system performs continuous calibration and reads bar codes.

Operator panel	Standard TCP/IP remote monitoring

Automatic clean	Additional dedicated cleaning cartridge slots are included for tape drive cleaning for multiple drive types by library or software command

Automatic self-discovery	Auto-discovery and auto-configuration for all drive, media types, slots, and CAP

Continuous automation calibration	No periodic maintenance or alignment required
Mechanical (Library)
	SL8500 (minimum configuration)	SL8500 (maximum configuration of 7 libraries)¹
Height	93.15 in (236.6 cm)	93.15 in (236.6 cm)

Depth	109 in (276.9 cm)	296.5 in (753.0 cm)

Width	67.3 in (170.81 cm)	2,338 in (5938.0 cm)

Weight (library only)	4,309 lb (1,954 kg)	247,830 lb (112,423 kg)
Environmental
Temperature (operating)	+60° to +90° F (+16° to +32° C)

Temperature (non-operating)	+40° to +90° F (+4° to +32° C)

Relative humidity (operating)	20% to 80%

Relative humidity (non-operating)	20% to 80%
Power
Voltage	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

Drives	Drive power consumption varies (refer to individual drive speciﬁcations)

Power consumption/dissipation	Varies by conﬁguration
Regulatory compliance
Safety	UL 1950; CAN/CSA 22.2 No. 950; EN60950

Emissions	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

Immunity	European Union CE immunity standards (CISPR24/EN55024)