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StorageTek SL500 Tape Drive Upgrade

StorageTek SL500 Tape Drive Upgrade

StorageTek SL500 Tape Library Upgrading your StorageTek / Sun SL500… If you are currently using a StorageTek STK SL500 tape library and you have either outgrown the capacity or your backup times are no longer within your time range, don’t replace the library, upgrade your tape drives.

 

Strategic Support Solutions (S3) can upgrade your StorageTek tape drives, whether you replace the drives yourself or you have S3 handle it for you, we have the solution for you.

How will upgrading your StorageTek SL500 drives increase your capacity and through put? As you see in the chart below, by upgrading your LTO3 drives to LTO5 you will increase you capacity per cartridge by over 2TB’s and an increase in throughput of over 120MB/s. Don’t wait, Upgrade your STK SL500 drives today!

Phone: +1 321-610-3900 or 866-994-4235   E-mail:  sales@strategicsupport.com

DriveLTO 2 LTO 3 LTO 4 LTO 5
Capacity/Cart
Native|Compressed
200|400GB 400|800GB 800|1.6TB 1.5|3.0TB
Throughput 80MB/s 160MB/s 240MB/s 280MB/s

StorageTek SL500 LTO tape drives feature extremely fast data transfer rates. Strategic Support Solutions offers the largest capacity STK SL500 tape drive upgrades from LTO 2, LTO 3, LTO 4 and
LTO 5 so that you can process as much data possible in as little time with your StorageTek SL500 Tape Library.

 

Strategic Support Solutions also sells, repairs and upgrades tape drives for your STK SL500, Oracle SL500, and Sun SL500 Tape libraries.

LTO3 SL500 Tape Drives:

SL500 Tape Drive Part NumberSL500 Tape Drive Description
003-0545-01, Y-SG-XL500-LTO3F4IIBM LTO 3 FC 4GB
003-0546-01, 3127905170,
Y-SG-XL150-LTO3F4HZ
HP LTO 3 FC GB
314828301, 314828503, 314828505, Y-SG-XL500-LTO3FCI,
Y-SG-XL500-LTO3FCH, 3100222886, Y-LTO3-HP2FC-SL500, 419686701
HP LTO 3 FC 2GB
LTO3S50-004IBM LTO 3 FC 2GB
314829301, LTO3S50-002,Y-SG-XL500L3S-HP-ZHP LTO 3 LVD SCSI
LTO3S50-003IBM LTO 3 LVD SCSI

 LTO4 SL500 Tape Drives:

SL500 Tape Drive Part NumberSL500 Tape Drive Description
003-4411-01, 3127905172, 419888006, 419888001, 419888301, LTO4-IB4FC-SL500IBM LTO 4 FC
003-4460-04, 003-4596-01, 3127905173, BRSLA-0601-DC, LTO4-HP4FC-SL500Z, PD098D#700HP LTO 4 FC
003-4597-01, 3127905174,419932408, 419932406, LTO4-HPLVD-SL500HP LTO 4 LVD SCSI
LTO4E-HP4FC-SL500ZHP LTO 4 FC Encryption Capable

LTO5 SL500 Tape Drives:

SL500 Tape Drive Part NumberSL500 Tape Drive Description
100531-02, 418621401, 418621602, LTO5-HP8FC-SL500Z, LTO5-HPFC-D-SL500, LTO5-HP8FC-SL500ZHP LTO 5 FC
LTO5-IBFC-D-SL500, LTO5-IB8FC-SL500ZIBM LTO 5 FC

Strategic Support Solutions also sells new or certified tape media so we can  provide you with a complete package, drive upgrade, installation, and media.

Our staff has hands-on experience with top tape manufacturers: