BC022A HPE StoreEver LTO-8 30750 Internal Tape Drive

BC022A is the HPE StoreEver LTO-8 Ultrium 30750 Internal Tape Drive, a 5¼-inch half-height SAS drive made for server direct attached storage. Capacity is 12 TB native or 30 TB compressed at 2.5:1, the sustained native transfer rate is 300 MB/s and the buffer is 1024 MB.

The interface is 6Gb/s dual-port SAS with an internal mini-SAS SFF8482 connector, and the burst transfer rate is 600 MB/s. Data rate matching adjusts to the host between 100 and 300 MB/s native. The drive reads and writes LTO-7, LTO-7 Type M and LTO-8 media, and it supports AES 256-bit hardware encryption, LTFS and WORM cartridges.

Average locate time is 60 seconds for LTO-8 media, load takes 15 s, unload 24 s and rewind from end of tape 114 s. MTBF is 250,000 hours at 100% duty cycle, and the uncorrected error rate is 1 in 1x10^19 bits. The internal drive measures 1.6 x 5.7 x 8.1 in (4.1 x 14.5 x 20.6 cm) and weighs 3.2 lb (1.45 kg), drawing 11 W idle and 31 W typical.

The kit contains the drive, one HPE LTO-8 Ultrium 30 TB RW data cartridge, a mini-SAS SFF8482 to SFF8087 cable and documentation. The ProLiant ML350 Gen11, ML350 Gen10 and ML350 Gen9 servers carry it as a tape drive option. The external version is BC023A and the TAA-compliant internal version is BC024A, while the 1U generic rack mount kit BC029A holds up to two internal SAS half-height drives.

The spare number is 882279-001, a StoreEver LTO-8 Ultrium 30750 internal tape drive with 30TB compressed and 12TB native capacity, 300MB/sec native transfer rate and LTFS support. More drives are in HPE tape.