HPE (rebadged) MSL3040 Tape Library with a LTO-8 Ultrium 30750 SAS Tape Drive & 40 Tape Slots

This HPE rebadged MSL3040 tape library includes an LTO-8 Ultrium 30750 SAS tape drive & 40 available tape slots. This HPE MSL3040 tape library package includes the library, documentation, 1 x HPE LTO-8 tape cartridge (Q2078A), 1 x HPE LTO universal tape drive cleaning cartridge (C7978A), a mini SAS 1m cable, terminator, tape barcode reader, remote management, a rack or rail kit for this 3U library and a 1-year next business day warranty. The data cable is a mini-SAS High Density (HD) SFF8644 to mini-SAS SFF8088; if requested, we can swap it for a 1m mini-SAS SFF8088 to mini-SAS SFF8088 cable. The LTO-8 tape drive can read and write to LTO-8 tapes at up to 360MB/sec native or 750MB/sec compressed; it can read and write to LTO-7 tapes but cannot read LTO-6 tapes. This HPE MSL3040 tape library drive has many options, including:

Scalability: It supports up to 3 tape drives and 40 tape slots in the base library unit. You can then add up to six additional units, creating up to 280 tape slots and up to 21 LTO-7, LTO-8, or LTO-9 tape drives.

Power supply upgrade kit: This option allows the power supply to be upgraded to allow for redundancy

Extended warranty: Upgrade the warranty from the HPE 1-year Next Business Day (NBD) Warranty that the library and drives come with to an HPE 3-year Foundation Care Next Business Day (NBD) Response Warranty or an HPE 3-year Foundation 24x7 Response Warranty for the library and drives.

Partitioning: This lets each partitioned library appear to the host as an independent library, separate from other partitions in the library.

HPE TapeAssure Advanced: This proactively and intelligently monitors utilisation, performance, and the overall life and health of the library, drives, and media.

Encryption: The MSL3040 library offers an encryption license and a key manager for added security. 

HPE Secure Manager License: This provides an additional level of security that lets you control access to the tape library by authorising specific servers. It improves reliability by blocking disruptive traffic from unauthorised hosts.

High availability path failover: This uses host drivers, along with library and drive firmware, to manage multiple paths across multiple SANs. It presents a single drive or robot path to applications and automatically transfers commands to an alternate path if the original one is lost.

Please note that this is the maximum you would pay. We must request the actual price from HPE using your company or personal information (depending on who is purchasing the tape hardware), and it is usually lower than this. AI and cloud providers are buying up all the tape drive hardware, and prices change frequently as a result. Please email us the equipment’s physical address, along with your purchasing details and requirements, and we will get you the best price we can.