HP With Full Line of LTO-6 Products

HP has not formally announced its entry into LTO-6 but has published a complete line of products based on the new Ultrium technology on its web site, following the same announcements by IBM.

The company now offers its own internal and external 5.25-inch LTO-6 drives with 6Gb SAS interface, a capacity per cartridge of 6.25TB and a transfer rate of 1.45 TB/hour, both figures with 2.5:1 compression rate.

The full-height models
with HP StoreOpen, LTFS, and HP TapeAssure are:

   
Internal HH StoreEver 6250

• Full-height external StorEver 6650: $5,699
• Full-height internal StorEver 6650: $5,499
• Half-height internal StoreEver 6250: $3,999
• Half-height external StoreEver 6250: $4,199

The 6250 tape drives are integrated
into several new autoloaders …

… in 1U …

• 1U 1 drive /8 cartridges 6250 with 6Gb SAS interface: $6,600
• 1U 1/8 6250 with 8Gb FC interface: $7,900

… and 2U …

• 2U 1/24 MSL2024 with 6Gb SAS interface: $8,600
• 2U 1/24 MSL2024 with 8Gb FC interface: $10,500

… as well as into libraries …

    8U 2/96 MSL8096

… in 2U …

• 2U 2/24 MSL2024 with 6Gb SAS interface: $14,540
• 2U 2/24 MSL2024 with 8Gb FC interface: $18,500

… 4U …

• 4U 2/48 MSL4048 with 6Gb SAS interface: $17,000
• 4U 2/48 MSL4048 with 8Gb FC interface: $18,500

… and 8U

• 8U 2/96 MSL8096 with 6Gb SAS interface:  $45,500
• 8U 2/ 96 MSL8096 with 8Gb FC interface: $50,000

HP is supposed to have in the future enterprise libraries with over 7,000 media enabling the storage of up to 44.4PB of compressed data.

Amazon sells HP branded LTO-6 cartridge at $140 per unit.