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Spectra T-Series Mid Range Libraries

T200, T380, T680

Enterprise Functionality and Scalability at Mid-Range Prices



Spectra mid-range T-series libraries

Preserve your initial storage investment with Spectra Logic's T-Series Mid-Range libraries. By utilizing interchangeable components, our libraries easily transform and scale (TranScale™) to protect your storage investment as your organization—and data—grows. Designed with enterprise-level functionality at mid-range prices, the T-Series Mid-Range libraries feature unmatched storage density, integrated encryption, power-usage monitoring, and the ability to add disk-based backup alongside tape—all inside the same library unit. Ideal for growing mid-range organizations, Spectra's T-Series Mid-Range libraries meet your storage capacity and feature needs now and in the future.

Spectra T-Series Mid-Range Libraries can:

  • Start with 50 tape slots and scale up to as many as 680 slots.
  • Scale up to as many as 12 drives.
  • Don't stop there. With the TranScale architecture, you can upgrade to a larger T-Series Library and preserve your investment by continuing to use the expensive library components. Interchange the:
    • Power Supplies
    • Drives
    • Interfaces (QIPs)
    • TeraPacks

  • Add SATA-based RXT media, instantly adding VTL to your backup strategy.
  • Support mixed media, within a single enclosure, of any combination of LTO and SDLT tape technologies, and mobile RXT VTL media.

Technical Features

Spectra T-Series Mid-Range BlueScale 10 environment is the library's core intelligence. BlueScale technology is backed by a decade's work in data protection with tape and disk libraries. Its intelligence provides the Spectra T-Series current innovative features, as well as its ability to support new technologies as they evolve.
The BlueScale environment supports:
  • Integrated BlueScale Encryption that supplies hardware-based encryption through our QIP or LTO-4 hardware and total key management (including LTO-4), with no external hardware or software
  • Partitioning through Shared Library Services (SLS) without external hardware or software
  • Capacity on Demand (CoD), which lets you add capacity as you need it and when you need it, simply by logging onto the Spectra Logic Web site and requesting a key that you use to enable new slots
  • Hot-swap drives and controllers, redundant components, and high-density modular design
  • Guaranteed on-time support, including an assisted self-maintenance (ASM) option and AutoSupport
  • WORM-compatible media, with LTO, SDLT, and RXT disk
  • Support for integrated removable RXT RAID VTL
  • Observatory, Remote Library Controller (RLC), and graphical touch-screen front panel to simplify library management and use
  • Connectivity with Fibre Channel and SCSI drives
  • Compatible with all major operating systems, backup software packages, and standard data center racks
  • Ground-breaking BlueScale EnergyAudit™ power monitoring feature

Free Encryption

Spectra T-Series Mid-Range libraries supply a one-step encryption and backup process, BlueScale Encryption, as a standard feature—letting you protect your data using federally-approved AES-256 encryption while backing up your data. BlueScale Encryption is the only truly integrated encryption for data stored on tape and RXT mobile disk, and lets you seamlessly and affordably add encryption to your backup strategy without changing any existing backup policies and requires no additional hardware or software.

Media Lifecycle Management

Spectra Logic helps you manage your tape media by giving you tools to proactively detect potential media errors well before they happen. Available only in Spectra Logic's T-Series libraries, Media Lifecycle Management records 30 data points every time a tape is loaded, giving you vital statistical and diagnostic information that helps you proactively manage your tape media throughout its life. By utilizing our Certified Media and BlueScale interface together, you can manage, track, and report all facets of tape usage from creation to retirement — all consolidated within the same application you use to manage your library.
BlueScale Vision™

Get an additional level of performance and health monitoring for your library by  visually monitoring the interior of your library with the web-based BlueScale Vision camera.  BlueScale Vision allows you to remotely observe import/export operations, tape mounts, cartridge moves, and robotic operations—all in real time.
For more detailed information on the Spectra T200, T380 or T680 download the T-Series datasheet now. (pdf)

If you need something bigger (or smaller) than these units, please see the rest of the T-series family - the T-50, T-120 and T950.  A truly integrated family of tape libraries that grows with you!

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