Ok, so I am a Software guy but I am posting about hardware devices. Maybe when it comes to hardware I am easily impressed? I promised to post information about interesting products and as someone who owned one of the first 5MB hard drives attached to a personal computer I guess I am in awe of large data storage devices?

There was a huge amount of energy on the Oracle OpenWorld floor being generated by the people working the booth and the visitors to the booth containing the SUN StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System is truly impressive, or as my son would say, “A Beast!”

The Oracle SUN StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System

One library stores 6.5 petabytes of storage spread over 10000 cartridges. It supports a maximum of 64 tape drives. It uses up to 8 independent robots in each library.  Up to seven such libraries can be connected side-by-side and automatically pass tapes between each other, forming a complex capable of storing over 70 PB of data and mounting 448 tape drives. Each tape drive installed in the SL8500 library has an independent data path. The aggregate data rate for all drives is 193.2 TB/hr.

So if you have a requirement for redundancy, modular scalability, and high performance then this is probably the device for you.

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