High-end Storage and Backup

A brief tour of some of the really high-end products in the fields of storage and backup

Thursday, April 03, 2003

IBM Enterprise Automated Tape Library 3494 Can connect up to 32 tape drives (SCSI or fiber) and 6240 (minimum 160) cartridges, amounting to 1122 terabytes of storage. Multiple machines running different OSs can simultaneously access the library.	The cartridge accessor in the IBM 3494
Sun StorEdge 9980 Having up to 74.7 TB of raw capacity (64.3 TB under RAID 5) and 15 GB/s aggregate internal bandwidth, this one is built up of 5 to 1024 disks. The data cache can be from 4 GB to 64 GB in increments of 4 GB, and up to 8192 devices can be supported.
Quantum DX30 The DX30 is a disk-based backup device that emulates a tape library. With RAID 5, it can do up to 3 TB. The software included with the system makes it appear to the computers as a tape library with two to six tape drives.
Quantum ATL P7000 The ATL (Automatic Tape Loader) supports both DLT and LTO and can scale up to 519 TB with up to 679 cartridges and 16 tape drives. With fiber channel, Gigabit Ethernet, or SCSI interfaces, the P7000 also has touch-screen controls.
EMC Symmetrix DMX800 The DMX800 supports from 1.2 to 17.5 TB of raw capacity (1 to 15.3 TB of useable capacity) with up to 32 GB of global cache. The DMX in the name signifies the new Direct Matrix architecture, which uses dedicated point to point connections rather than the more traditional bus architecture or switch architecture.
Seagate Viper 2000 LVD Autoloader  This is a newly launched 11-cartridge (ten for data, one for cleaning) autoloader that uses Ultrium tapes to give a compressed capacity of 2200 GB (2.2 TB).
HP Enterprise Virtual Array This one uses fiber channel hard disks and can have up to 146 GB, made up of 10,000 RPM disks.

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