HPE (Rebadged) MSL LTO-8 Ultrium 30750 SAS Drive Upgrade Kit

The HPE rebadged MSL LTO Ultrium8 30750 SAS Drive Upgrade Kit is an HPE LTO-8 MSL tape library drive (Q6Q68A) compatible with any HPE MSL tape library. This drive is an HPE MSL half-height (HH) LTO-8 SAS tape drive for use with the HPE Autoloader 1/8 (1 drive max), MSL2024 (2 drives max), MSL4048 (4 drives max), MSL3040 (3 drives per base module then 3 drives per add-on unit) or MSL6480 libraries (6 drives per base module then 6 drives per add-on unit). This MSL tape library drive connects via a SAS 6 Gbps interface. The LTO-8 SAS drive upgrade kit comes with a 29-Pin SAS-2 connector, and the tapes have a native capacity of up to 12TB at a speed of up to 360MB/sec, and a compressed capacity of up to 30TB at a data transfer rate of up to 750MB/sec. This MSL tape library half-height drive can read from and write to LTO-8 tapes and LTO-7 tapes.

The HPE rebadged MSL LTO8 tape drive can be added to a new MSL tape library, to an existing MSL tape library capable of supporting more than one drive, or it can replace a failed tape drive in an MSL tape library.

We offer a tape drive diagnosis service if your tape drive is out of warranty. This can help get more use out of these tape drives, as long as they are repairable.