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AA941A

HP AA941A ESL E Ultrium 460 NFC Drive


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Tape Drives Supported SDLT 600
Ultrium 460
Ultrium 960
Maximum Number of Tape Drives 1 - 24
Maximum Number of Cartridge Slots 286 to 712
Maximum Capacity (native) 284.8 TB
Note: Assuming 2:1 data compression
Maximum Sustained Transfer Rate (native) 6.9 TB/hr
Note: Assuming 2:1 data compression

Maximum Storage Density 28.4 TB/ft2
Form Factor Freestanding
Interface Fibre Channel (4Gb/2Gb/1Gb multi-mode optical)

HP AA941A Overview

The family of HP AA941A StorageWorks Enterprise Systems Library (ESL) E-Series Tape Libraries offers both best-in-class drive and cartridge densities. In a single cabinet the ESL E-Series contains from 322 to 712 LTO cartridges or 286 to 630 SDLT cartridges. In addition, the ESL E-Series has the ability to scale to twenty four drives in a single library cabinet.
The HP AA941A ESL E-Series can be managed as a single library with up to five frames, 3546 Ultrium cartridges or 3138 SDLT cartridges and up to 44 tape drives using the ESL E-Series Cross Link Kit and Cross Link Expansion Kit.
Offered with Ultrium 960 Native Fibre Channel (FC), Ultrium 460 SCSI, Ultrium 460 Native Fibre Channel (FC) Drives, SDLT 600 tape technology, the ESL E-Series offers best-in-class storage density with up to 28.4 TB of native storage capacity per square foot.
HP HP AA941A StorageWorks E-Series Tape Libraries are fully integrated into HP StorageWorks Extended Tape Library Architecture (ETLA) that provides improved backup and restore reliability by insulating the tape library from the SAN. This helps to significantly reduce IT resource and time investigating and resolving backup failures. ETLA simplifies the installation and integration of the library into the SAN by providing a simple point-and-click integration process.
The HP AA941A ETLA simplifies backup through better, more automated management of the entire library. ETLA also offers remote manageability that allows you to easily configure, manage, and monitor all library components from any location.
The E-Series supports a mixture of Ultrium 960 FC, Ultrium 460 and SDLT 600 tape drives in a single cabinet. This allows customer to easily migrate their library forward as new tape drive technologies become available. The ESL E-Series Tape Library provides the ability to easily partition the library into up to six virtual tape libraries to adapt to ongoing changes that take place in the SAN environment. The ESL E-Series libraries combined with the HP ETLA offers customers with enterprise storage area networks (SAN) superior reliability and expandability, ease of integration, and simplicity of installation and operation. RICOM sells refurbished HP AA941A tape units.