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The family of HP StorageWorks Enterprise Systems Library (ESL) E-Series Tape Libraries offers both best-in-class drive and cartridge densities. The ESL E-Series contains from 322 to 712 LTO cartridges or 286 to 630 SDLT cartridges in a single cabinet. In addition, the ESL E-Series has the ability to scale to twenty four drives in a single library cabinet. The ESL E-Series offers up to 1410 Ultrium cartridges or 1248 SDLT cartridges with two frames using the ESL E-Series Cross Link Kit. With the E-Series Cross Link Kit it supports up to 44 tape drives as one large frame tape library. Offered with Ultrium 960 Native Fibre Channel (FC), Ultrium 460 SCSI, Ultrium 460 Native Fibre Channel (FC) Drives, SDLT 600 and/or SDLT 320 tape technology, the ESL E-Series offers best-in-class storage density with up to 28.4 TB of native storage capacity per square foot.
Unattended backup that frees up your IT resources and minimises the risk of human error: sophisticated solutions for direct-attach to servers, over-the-network backup, and SAN environments; wide choice of technologies; capacities up to 284 TB native
Tape drives make backup : Fast - Speed is critical because your data is constantly growing while the time available for backup is shrinking. Even the slowest tape drive writes 1 MB per second and the fastest 30 MB per second - that means a 200 GB backup can be completed in less than two hours. Easy - Unlike other storage methods, tape drives offer a range of media that allows you to back up all the data on a small to medium-sized server - up to 200 GB - on a single cartridge. And tape backup captures your system setup information, as well as your data, allowing you to restore your entire system when disaster strikes. What's more, your software can schedule backups to happen automatically at the time most convenient for you. Affordable - Per gigabyte of storage, tape is the most cost-effective way to store large amounts of data. The compact size of tape cartridges also helps keep down your storage costs.

• HP ESL E-Series tape Libraries now have an improved front door which is RoHS compliant. This new door applies to all three ESL E-Series Tape Libraries

• Best-in-Class Drive Density: up to 24 tape drives in a single frame; up to 44 drives with two E-Series frames using the ESL E-Series Cross Link Kit

• Best-in-Class Cartridge Capacity: up to 712 Ultrium cartridges or 630 SDLT cartridges in a single frame; Up to 1410 Ultrium cartridges or 1248 SDLT cartridges with two frames using the ESL E-Series Cross Link Kit

• Available in half populated configurations: 322 Ultrium or 286 SDLT slots

• Removable Load Port Magazines

• Smaller Form Factor: 28.4 TB per square foot with Ultrium 960 technology and 712 cartridges

• Complete, unobtrusive management and control of the entire library system including robotics, drives, Interface Controllers, and Interface Manager card

• Web-based, centralized user interface, in addition to telnet interface on Interface Manager card

• Automation of complex and repetitive library system management tasks

• High SAN availability since management traffic stays out of the data path