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HPE StoreEver LTO-7 Ultrium 15000 External Tape Drive
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Overview of "BB874A" – BB874A is a high-performance NAS storage system featuring an 8-bay design that supports SATA HDDs, SAS HDDs, and SATA SSDs. It offers a total raw capacity of up to 256 TB with comprehensive RAID protection including RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, and RAID 10, ensuring data reliability for demanding storage environments.
Designed for environments ranging from SMB backup and virtualization to enterprise data centers and media servers, BB874A is powered by an Intel Xeon processor with 8 cores, pre-installed with 16 GB of ECC DDR4 memory and expandable up to 128 GB. The system comes equipped with USB 3.2 and 10GbE network interfaces, supports expansion, and features redundant cooling and a redundant 500W power supply to guarantee uninterrupted performance.
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In a mid-sized financial services firm processing 2 TB of transactional data daily, the BB874A-HPE StoreEver LTO-7 Ultrium 15000 External Tape Drive delivers 300 MB/s native throughput and 6 TB native (15 TB compressed) capacity. Integrated with enterprise backup software and hardware encryption, it ensures secure, automated backups, reduces on-site disk storage costs by up to 70%, and meets FINRA and SEC retention mandates for superior data integrity and auditability.
A regional healthcare network retaining 5 PB of patient records over 30 years leverages the BB874A-HPE StoreEver LTO-7 Ultrium 15000 External Tape Drive with WORM and AES-256 encryption for tamper-proof, offline cold storage. Achieving a TCO reduction of 60% versus disk-based archives, it supports HIPAA compliance, rapid indexed retrieval, and long-term durability of over 30 years, safeguarding sensitive health data against cyber threats and regulatory risks.
A post-production studio managing 500 TB of 4K video files uses the BB874A-HPE StoreEver LTO-7 Ultrium 15000 External Tape Drive to create weekly offline vaults. With 750 MB/s compressed throughput and high-density cartridges, it accelerates large-file offloads, cuts off-site bandwidth costs by 80%, and provides air-gapped protection against ransomware. The result is rapid business-continuity restoration and guaranteed archival integrity for mission-critical media assets.
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 BB874A |  BB873SB |  EH970SB |  Q0L08SB |  AK381A | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product Type | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System |
| Storage Type | NAS | SAN | SAN | NAS | SAN |
| Form Factor | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount |
| Bay Count | 8-bay | 24-bay | 12-bay | 8-bay | 12-bay |
| Supported Drive Types | SATA HDD / SAS HDD / SATA SSD | SATA HDD / SAS HDD / SATA SSD | SATA HDD / SAS HDD / SATA SSD | SATA HDD / SAS HDD / SATA SSD / NVMe SSD | Mixed |
| Hot-Swap Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Max Supported Capacity | 256 TB | 512 TB | 512 TB | 1 PB | 512 TB |
| RAID Support | RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 5 / RAID 6 / RAID 10 | RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 5 / RAID 6 | RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 5 / RAID 6 / RAID 10 | RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 5 / RAID 6 / RAID 10 | RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 5 / RAID 6 / RAID 10 |
| CPU Type | Intel Xeon | Intel Xeon | Intel Xeon | Intel Xeon | Intel Xeon |
| CPU Cores | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Installed RAM | 16 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB | 8 GB |
| Max RAM Capacity | 128 GB | 64 GB | 128 GB | 64 GB | 128 GB |
| RAM Type | ECC DDR4 | ECC DDR4 | DDR4 | DDR4 | ECC DDR4 |
| Network Ports | 10GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE |
| LAN Ports | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| USB Ports | USB 3.2 | USB 3.2 | USB 3.2 | USB 3.2 | USB 3.2 |
| Expansion Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cooling | Active | Active | Active | Redundant Fan | Redundant Fan |
| Power Supply | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant |
| Power Supply Wattage | 500W | 500W | 750W | 350W | 350W |
| Operating System | Custom OS | Custom OS | Custom OS | Custom OS | Custom OS |
| Snapshot Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cloud Sync Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Virtualization Ready | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| iSCSI Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Surveillance Support | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
| Use Case | SMB / Enterprise Data Center / Media Server / Virtualization | Enterprise Data Center / Virtualization | Enterprise Data Center | Enterprise Data Center | SMB / Enterprise Data Center / Media Server / Virtualization |
| Product Name | BB874A HighPerformance NAS | BB873SB Enterprise SAN Storage | EH970SB Enterprise Storage System | Q0L08SB Enterprise NAS | AK381A Enterprise SAN Storage System |
| Height | 4 inches | 4 inches | 3 inches | 3.5 inches | 3.4 inches |
| Width | 17 inches | 17.5 inches | 17 inches | 17.3 inches | 17.3 inches |
| Depth | 18 inches | 28 inches | 28 inches | 16.5 inches | 28.5 inches |
| Weight | 25 lbs | 50 lbs | 25 lbs | 25 lbs | 45 lbs |
External LTO-7 drive performed consistently during backups.
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The HPE StoreEver LTO-7 Ultrium 15000 External Tape Drive (SKU: BB874A) is a high-performance magnetic tape storage solution delivering enterprise-grade backup, archiving, and disaster recovery with up to 6 TB native (15 TB compressed) capacity and 750 MB/s native (1.875 GB/s compressed) throughput.
It provides up to 6 TB native capacity and up to 15 TB capacity with 2.5:1 hardware compression per cartridge, enabling high-density, long-term data retention.
The drive delivers up to 750 MB/s native and up to 1.875 GB/s compressed data transfer rates to accelerate backup and restore operations.
It supports native LTO Ultrium 7 media, backward compatibility with LTO-6 media for read/write, and LTO-5 media for read-only operations.