The StorageTek PowderHorn® 9310 automated cartridge system's massive capacity and high-speed access is ideal for large NT, UNIX, supercomputer and mainframe systems. Suited for sharing information across an entire enterprise, the StorageTek 9310 automated cartridge system is the largest-capacity tape library StorageTek offers.

The PowderHorn ACS features StorageTek's ultra-reliable robotics for high availability and accommodates a mix of enterprise tape drives to allow the right drive for each application: the T9840 access-centric tape drive, with superior speed and unmatched access, ideal for transaction-intensive, time critical applications and Hierarchial Storage Management and the T9940 capacity-centric tape drive with unmatched capacity and throughput, ideal for archiving, backup, record retention, and disaster recovery.

• Configured to 146+ TB native (uncompressed)
• 1.8 TB (10 - 180 GB) 7.2K rpm Fibre Disk Drives
• 4.09 TB (28 - 143 GB) 10K rpm Fibre Disk Drives
• 730 GB (10 - 73 GB) 10K rpm Fibre Disk Drives
• Uses fast precision robotics (2 robotic arms) to access data quickly, with up to 450 cartridge exchanges per hour
• 3 Access-Centric T9840B Tape Drives
• 300 x 20 GB native data capacity tape cartridges = 6 TB total
• 19 MB/second native (uncompressed) performance
• 4 second tape load and thread to ready
• 8 second average file access time (first file)
• 16/8 second maximum/average rewind time
• 4 second unload time
• 3 Capacity-Centric T9940B Tape Drives
• 700 x 200 GB native data capacity tape cartridges = 140 TB total
• 30 MB/second native (uncompressed) performance
• 18 second tape load and thread to ready
• 41 second average file access time
• 90/45 second maximum/average rewind time
• 18 second unload time
• Automated Storage Management (ASM) software transparently pushes seldom-used data from disk off to tape - a more affordable storage medium than disk - and quickly retrieves it on command. ASM creates up to four concurrent copies of data simultaneously and transparently.