HPE StoreEver MSL LTO-7 Ultrium 15000 SAS Drive Upgrade Kit

N7P37A is the HPE StoreEver MSL LTO-7 Ultrium 15000 SAS Drive Upgrade Kit, a SAS tape drive upgrade for MSL libraries. An LTO-7 Ultrium 15000 drive stores 6 TB native and 15 TB compressed per cartridge, at the 2.5:1 compression HPE assumes for LTO-6 and higher.

The Ultrium 15000 generation reads and writes LTO-6 and LTO-7 media and reads LTO-5 media. It sustains 300 MB/s native, matches the host speed across 100 to 300 MB/s, carries a 1024 MB buffer and connects over 6Gb/s dual-port SAS. Average load time is 12 s and unload time is 17 s, rewind from end of tape on a 6 TB cartridge takes 114 s, and data access from the beginning of tape on LTO-7 media averages 60 s. MTBF is 250,000 hours at 100% duty cycle.

The matching cartridges are the HPE LTO-7 Ultrium 15TB RW Data Cartridge C7977A and the C7977W WORM cartridge, which uses a write-once, read-many format and cannot be overwritten.

N7P37A is among the tape options for the HPE ProLiant ML350 Gen10, ProLiant DL20 Gen9 and ProLiant XL170r Gen9 servers and for the HPE Apollo 4510 Gen10 system. N7P36A is the Fibre Channel version of the LTO-7 kit.

The same kit family covers LTO-6 with C0H27A (SAS) and C0H28A (Fibre Channel), LTO-5 with BL540B (SAS), and LTO-8 with Q6Q67A (Fibre Channel) and Q6Q68A (SAS).

The spare number for the drive in this kit is 834168-001. More drives are in HPE tape drives.

Related: HPE ProLiant DL20 parts

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Related part: C0H27A HPE StoreEver MSL LTO-6 Ultrium 6250 SAS Drive Upgrade Kit