Specifications
Positioning
Introduction
Sun provides reliable data storage solutions that deliver comprehensive availability, access, and
protection for its customers critical business data. The Sun StorEdge
TM
L25 and L100 tape libraries
combine Sun's data continuance innovation, quality, and high standards that create exceptional
performance, capacity, and value, helping to lower the total cost of ownership.
Whether the Sun StorEdge L25 and L100 products work in unison along with Sun's backup applications
or data replication products or independently, their dependability meets critical data protection
requirements and, more importantly, vital data recoverability. The Sun StorEdge L25 and L100 libraries
implement advanced, scalable design with proven technologies that ease management and protection of
business critical data in network environments, from the workgroup to the department.
Sun's leadership in data protection and storage is shown in the reliability, quality, and serviceability of
the entire storage solutions family for easy, nondisruptive, end-to-end infrastructure integration.
The Sun StorEdge L25 and L100 modular tape libraries are designed for backup and restore of data in
corporate IT environments. These products should be considered with all proposals for servers and/or
primary (disk) storage. The Sun StorEdge L25 and L100 modular libraries can be linked in a rack system,
via StackLink, creating a storage system that can be designed for the specific needs of the customer.
These two libraries together can satisfy a wide range of backup and restore needs.
The Sun StorEdge L25 library is available with either an HVD or LVD interface and several tape drive
types (all tape drives must be of the same type and interface). Each module has 25 LTO or 21 DLT/SDLT
cartridge slots in two removable magazines, plus one fixed slot, for a native data capacity of up to 5 TB
and a native throughput of up to 60 MB/sec. (216 GB per hour) when using LTO 2. Each magazine holds
12 LTO or 10 DLT/SDLT cartridges. The Sun StorEdge L25 library should be considered when the
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Figure 1. The Sun StorEdge
TM
L100 and L25 tape libraries