HPE StoreEver LTO-9 Ultrium 45000 Internal Tape Drive

BC040A is the HPE StoreEver LTO-9 Ultrium 45000 Internal Tape Drive, a half-height drive with a 12 Gb/s dual-port SAS interface. It holds 18 TB native on one LTO-9 cartridge, or 45 TB at the 2.5:1 compression HPE assumes for LTO-7 and later, and it reads and writes LTO-8 and LTO-9 media.

The drive streams at 300 MB/s native and matches the host speed anywhere from 100 to 300 MB/s, with a burst rate of 1200 MB/s over 12 Gb/s SAS. The buffer is 1024 MB and the internal connector is mini-SAS SFF8482. AES 256-bit hardware encryption and LTFS are built in, and the five front-panel LEDs are Ready, Drive, Tape, Clean and Encryption. MTBF is 250,000 hours at 100% duty cycle.

The box holds the drive, one HPE LTO-9 Ultrium 45 TB RW data cartridge, a SFF8087 Mini SAS 4i to SFF8087 Mini SAS 3i cable and documentation. Every new LTO-9 cartridge needs a one-time media initialization before its first use, which mostly completes within an hour and can take up to 2 hours.

In the HPE ProLiant ML350 Gen11, one internal LTO drive fits in Box 1. It needs the Tertiary Riser Kit P49693-B21, the Internal LTO Support Kit P62309-B21 and one port from an MR216i-o/p or MR408i-o storage controller, and the BIOS thermal configuration must be set to Increased Cooling. For a rack, the StoreEver 1U Generic Rack Mount Kit BC029A holds up to two internal SAS half-height drives, and the 4m Mini SAS HD cable P35174-B21 connects LTO-9 drives to SFF-8644 connectors.

BC041A is the TAA-compliant version of the same internal drive, and BC042A is the external LTO-9 drive. The LTO-8 internal drive is BC022A.

The spare number for the drive is P36630-001. Two cable spares apply too: P35551-001 for the 4m mini-SAS HD 12Gb cable and P47597-001 for the internal LTO SAS 12Gb cable. More drives are in HPE tape drives.