HPE Storage LTO-8 Ultrium External Tape Drive 5x LTO-8 30TB Data Cartridges

P84141-B25 is the HPE Storage LTO-8 Ultrium External Tape Drive 5x LTO-8 30TB Data Cartridges. It is a preconfigured model of one HPE StoreEver LTO-8 Ultrium 30750 external tape drive and five HPE LTO-8 Ultrium 30TB RW data cartridges. The LTO-9 version with five 45TB cartridges is P84142-B25, and the external LTO-8 drive on its own is BC023A. HPE does not allow factory integration of options into preconfigured models.

The external unit measures 3 x 8.8 x 11.7 in (7.7 x 22.3 x 29.5 cm) and weighs 10.3 lb (4.65 kg) out of the box. Its interface is 6Gb/s dual-port SAS with an external mini-SAS SFF8088 connector. A cartridge holds 12 TB native and 30 TB compressed at 2.5:1. Sustained native transfer is 300 MB/s, burst transfer is 600 MB/s with 6Gb/s SAS, data rate matching covers 100-300 MB/s native, and the buffer is 1024 MB. The drive writes 32 channels at once in a linear serpentine pattern, supports LTFS and AES 256-bit hardware encryption, and reads and writes LTO-7, LTO-7 Type M and LTO-8 media.

External power is 100 to 240 VAC, 50-60 Hz, auto-ranging, 0.8A maximum, with 11 watts at idle and 31 watts typical. Average load time is 15 seconds and the MTBF is 250,000 hours at 100% duty cycle.

For Gen10 ProLiant servers the recommended SAS host bus adapter for external LTO Ultrium drives is the HPE Smart Array E208e-p SR Gen10 (8 external lanes, no cache) 12G SAS PCIe plug-in controller, 804398-B21. For DL and ML Gen9 servers the recommended adapter is the Microsemi Adaptec HBA 1100-8e, A1100-8E, which HPE does not officially support although the configuration is supported. The 2.0m external Mini SAS High Density to Mini SAS cable 716191-B21 connects external LTO-5 to LTO-8 SAS tape devices to controllers with external Mini-SAS high density connectors, as used by the E208e-p and H241 host bus adapters. More tape drives and media are in HPE tape drives and media.