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The T50e tape library from Spectra is built to meet your data storage needs now and for many years to come. With the T50e, you can seamlessly add drives, slots and features to meet your capacity and performance requirements – without adding excessive costs. Start small and grow your capacity as your needs expand. Begin with one LTO tape drive and add up to three more. Add slots effortlessly in increments of five up to 50 slots with Spectra’s capacity on demand feature.
By combining field-proven reliability with cutting-edge storage innovation, the Spectra® T50e gives you enterprise capabilities in a compact, 4U rackmount or desktop library. Built upon vast experience in tape automation hardware and many generations of BlueScale® software, the Spectra T50e is simply the most reliable and feature-rich solution available in the small library market today.
The T50e offers you advanced LTO technology, powerful library management, increased security through our built-in BlueScale® Encryption, plus a range of support options to suit your needs. With more innovative features than any other library in its class, the T50e easily stands out in front.
Partition Support
Support up to two applications at the same time with the T50e partitions. For example, you can support a backup application and a media asset manager. Or you can have one partition with current media, such as LTO-7, and an older partition with legacy LTO. The T50e can support up to four partitions if it has four drives installed. The options are endless.
Scalability with Spectra
If an organization does eventually move beyond the capacity of a T50e library, note that Spectra makes it possible to scale up to the next model with minimal disruption while letting the customer retain the value of the T50e library. Further, all Spectra Libraries are managed with a common software interface and operating system greatly reducing time otherwise required to learn the use and management of a new library.
Set it and forget it. Designed for ultimate simplicity, the T50e arrives at your doorstep ready to install in minutes and transform your environment while maximizing your return on investment. Learn More >
T50e Technical Specifications
| Capacity and Throughput | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Technology | Max Drives | Max Cartridges | Max Capacity | Max Throughput | Encryption Support |
| LTO-9 | 4 | 50** |
900TB 2.25PB |
5.76TB/hr 12.96TB/hr |
Yes |
| LTO-8* | 4 | 50** |
600TB 1.5PB |
5.18TB/hr 10.8TB/hr |
Yes |
| LTO-7 Type M | 4 | 50** |
450TB 1.12PB |
4.3TB/hr 10.08TB/hr |
Yes |
| LTO-7 | 4 | 50** |
300TB 750TB |
4.3TB/hr 10.08TB/hr |
Yes |
| LTO-6 | 4 | 50** |
125TB (uncompressed) 312.5TB (compressed)* |
2.3TB/hr (uncompressed) 5.8TB/hr (compressed)* |
Yes |
* *Assumes 2:1 compression for LTO-5 and 2.5:1 for LTO-6, LTO-7, LTO-8, and LTO-9
** With 4 drives, maximum cartridges is 48
| Environmental | |
|---|---|
| LTO Drives and Media | |
| Temperature | 10’C to 40’C (50’F to 104’F) |
| Humidity | 20 to 80% |
| Reliability | |
|---|---|
| Library MTTR | 3 minutes for hot-swap components. 30 minutes for non-hot-swap components |
| Power Requirements |
4 LTO-8 Drives; 148 Watts AC (max operating) 200-240v AC (50/60Hz>/6.8-8.2 Amps (RMS) Heat Dissipation: 506 BTU/hr (max operating, same configuration) |
| Library | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max Media/Slot Count | Max Partitions | Tape Technology Supported | Dimensions | Interface |
| 50 | 4 | LTO-4,5,6,7,7 Type M,8 | 31.6 in (D) x 17.5 in (W) x 7.3 in (H) (4U) |
Fibre Channel – 8Gb/s, SAS |
| Library Weight | |
|---|---|
| Base Chassis | 84.0 lb (38.1 kg) |
| Weight wtih Max Drives and Max Inventory | 102.0 lb (46.2 kg) |
| Library Features | ||
|---|---|---|
| Encryption Supported | BlueScale/Spectra SKLM | |
| Type of TeraPack System | No TeraPacks | |
| Queued Ejects Support | Yes | |
| Auto Clean Support |
Yes |
|
| Camera (Spectra Vision) | No | |
| Spectra Encryption Options | Available | Cost |
| Spectra BlueScale Standard Encryption | X | Free |
| Spectra BlueScale Professional Encryption | X | Additional Charge |
| Spectra BlueScale SKLM Encryption | X | Additional Charge |
"When we set out on our search to find a storage solution capable of preserving Imperial War Museums’ substantial digital archive, there were specific criteria on which we were not willing to compromise. Spectra met all of our requirements and then some, and now continues to deliver with StorCycle’s storage lifecycle management capabilities."
– Ian Crawford, Chief Information Officer, Imperial War Museums
"We appreciate the collaborative relationship and Spectra’s attentiveness to incorporating our feedback and ideas into solution enhancements. Our continuing investment into Spectra technology on behalf of our organization has proven invaluable in helping us implement the next level architectural model taking us into the future."
– Eric Grau, Manager – Media Asset Management, Joyce Meyer Ministries
"The new library has just shy of 14,000 slots for tapes. We were able to easily move all 70 petabytes of existing data into the new system and have grown to 104 petabytes in size and have plenty of room for at least a year or two before we have to start thinking about expanding."
– HPC Linux Systems Engineer, OLCF
"We have to store a lot of data for long periods of time. A single microscope can capture 10TB of data in as little as a few hours, and a published breakthrough on cancer research can take anywhere from a few years to a couple of decades. The BlackPearl and tape solution from Spectra provides a scalable and cost-effective way to store multiple data workflows with varying retention requirements."
– Jeffrey McDonald, director of IT, Hormel Institute at University of Minnesota
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