Installation of an IBM TS3500 tape lIbrary at CSCS
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- Опубликовано: 26 фев 2013
- In early 2013 an automated tape library (IBM TS3500) has been installed at CSCS. capable of storing ~ 27.4 PB petabytes of uncompressed data. The library is composed of 16 frames plus 2 service bays cabinets and can contain up to 18'257 tapes moved by two robots (in the actual configuration there are 24 LTO5 drives). The Library is part of the Backup System (IBM Tivoli Storage Manager) and integrated into the HSM environment (Hierarchical Storage Management) that takes on tapes files not accessed by a long time.
In the movie you may follow the different phases of the installation of the tape libray, from the positioning of the first frame up to the loading of the tapes. 
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Yikes. That brings back memories of waiting hours for tape libraries to do a full inventory just because I opened the cabinet accidentally.
Wow that's really a massive tape library!
Awesome.
All the tape in this library would stretch just over a third of the earths circumference. Think about that...
Damn, I'd hate to have to do tape rotations when the monthly backups completed!
Do you have tutorial on installing base frame and other expansion frame??
How much time would you need to allow to set up a 7 frame system?
I would be very curious to know if this physical tape library is dedicated to a single backup server, or split into logical libraries. If it were a single backup server, I would love to see the hardware specs on it, and whether it was running TSM/Spectrum Protect.
Thanks so much for posting this video!
No, the libaray could be splited on several virtual libraries and use diferent OS and servers
How long did the first tape inventory take? ;-)
so that's where the internet is stored
Hmm I had this idea that we could make robotic radios
What is the advantage of using tape libraries instead of solid state drives or hard disk drives?
Alex Koch Ok. I also read that they were more durable than other means of storage.
Price. An LTO-6 tape holds ~6.25 TB of data, for ~$25USD. Also you can offsite them so you can recover from a disaster that destroys the building.
Price per TB is much lower, operating cost is much lower, much higher density compared to HDD's and SSD's and with LTO8 you now get 30TB compressed onto 1 tape. Also some companies use them to meet legal requirements to store data for years or to guarantee data will be unaltered when reading it decades later so for instance the IRS can be certain the company cannot have changed numbers etc. when using 'WORM' tapes (write once read many) which as the name implies can only be written one time and after that cannot be altered so the data has the timestamp and you'll be certain that data complies with legal standards/requirements.
It's also nice knowing that whatever virus you might get on the network: it can never access offline media stored in a tape robot and even if it could compromise the entire library somehow (it can't) it would take months to overwrite everything, that would be detected within the first 24 hours after the backup servers start reporting errors.
With LTO8 you could get speeds of up to 900MB/s per drive, some of these libraries support up to 200 drives which would do 180GB/s, making any SSD's 550MB/s look like the poor mans storage device basically...
Ransomeware can't touch Tape!
What kind of datacenter are you using that allows you to have cardboard in the same area as the hardware? That's a big no no.
theres new packaging and no paper or cardboard options now from fujifilm and any generation is available in bulk form. even barcoded with your sequences
Bring me one pf those drive
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yea... at 6.25TB per cartridge (uncompressed) yea.... thats a LOT of storage!!!!!
Keith LTO-5's have a capacity of 1500 MB or 1.5 Terabytes.
1500MB = 1.5TB now? :P
LTO9 now is 18 TB uncompressed. About 35 TB compressed. Storage capacities are just getting larger and larger all the time.
All this to store a JPG
Tapes? So people are still using these?
Tapes are still being used for backups and in some cases for mass (cold) storage of data that doesn't need instant accessibility. Tape has a long lifespan unlike HDDs and SSDs which usually die long before a tape is unusable, plus tape is cheap, the drive and autoloaders/library are expensive but TB for TB tape is extremely cheap making it very suitable for mass storage of backups.
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The ones that didn't wear ear protection should lose their health protection.
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What is the advantage of using tape libraries instead of solid state drives or hard disk drives?
Large capacity, (relatively) cheap price, shock resilient.