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LTO-8 ULTRIUM 30 TB RW 20 DATA CART NON CUSTOM LABELED PL-7A
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Q2078AN is a high-performance SAN storage system equipped with 12 drive bays designed for enterprise-level data centers. It supports mixed drive types including SATA HDD, SAS HDD, and SATA SSD with a total capacity of up to 256 TB while offering RAID levels such as RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, and RAID 10. The system is powered by an Intel Xeon processor with 8 cores and comes with 16 GB of pre-installed memory, which can be expanded up to 64 GB using ECC DDR4 modules.
Q2078AN provides robust interface options with USB 3.1 and 10GbE Ethernet ports, in addition to Fibre Channel support for high-speed connectivity. It features 4 LAN ports, redundant fan cooling, and a redundant 500W power supply, ensuring optimal reliability and expansion capabilities for use cases such as enterprise data centers, virtualization, SMB backup, and media server applications.
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A multinational financial institution deploys Q2078AN-LTO-8 ULTRIUM 30 TB RW 20 DATA CART NON CUSTOM LABELED PL-7A cartridges for secure, WORM-compliant archival of audit logs and transaction records. With 30 TB of native, rewriteable capacity per tape and a 30+ year shelf life, the solution minimizes on-site storage footprint, ensures regulatory retention mandates are met, and accelerates e-discovery searches by leveraging tape indexing for rapid retrieval.
A global manufacturing enterprise integrates Q2078AN-LTO-8 ULTRIUM 30 TB RW cartridges into its Veeam-powered backup strategy to replicate critical virtual machine images and database snapshots off-site. The high-capacity, portable media reduces network bandwidth consumption, delivers up to 30 TB of native storage per tape, and shortens recovery-time objectives (RTOs) by streamlining bulk data transport and restoring operations in under two hours.
A post-production studio leverages Q2078AN-LTO-8 ULTRIUM 30 TB RW cartridges to archive raw 4K/8K video footage and CGI assets. The industry-leading tape reliability and low total cost of ownership enable secure, offline storage of terabytes of uncompressed media, safeguard creative workflows against ransomware, and support on-demand retrieval through LTO Autoloader integration, reducing data center cooling costs by up to 40%.
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 Q2078AN |  BL540B |  Q2013A |  AH167A |  Q2S12A | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product Type | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System |
| Storage Type | SAN | SAN | NAS | SAN | NAS |
| Form Factor | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount |
| Bay Count | 12-bay | 24-bay | 12-bay | 12-bay | 12-bay |
| Supported Drive Types | Mixed | Mixed | Mixed | Mixed | Mixed |
| Hot-Swap Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Max Supported Capacity | 256 TB | 192 TB | 1 PB | 256 TB | 256 TB |
| RAID Support | RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 5 / RAID 6 / RAID 10 | RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 5 / RAID 6 / RAID 10 / RAID 50 / RAID 60 | 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 | 16 GB |
| Max RAM Capacity | 64 GB | 128 GB | 64 GB | 128 GB | 64 GB |
| RAM Type | ECC DDR4 | DDR4 | ECC DDR4 | ECC DDR4 | ECC DDR4 |
| Network Ports | 10GbE | 10GbE / Fibre Channel | 10GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE |
| LAN Ports | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| USB Ports | USB 3.1 | USB 3.2 | USB 3.2 | USB 3.2 | USB 3.2 |
| Expansion Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cooling | Redundant Fan | Redundant Fan | Redundant Fan | Redundant Fan | Redundant Fan |
| Power Supply | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant |
| Power Supply Wattage | 500W | 500W | 500W | 750W | 500W |
| Operating System | Custom OS | Custom OS | QTS | 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 | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Use Case | Enterprise Data Center | Enterprise Data Center / SMB / Virtualization / Media Server | Enterprise Data Center | SMB / Enterprise Data Center / Virtualization / Media Server | Enterprise Data Center |
| Product Name | Q2078AN High-Performance SAN | BL540B Storage Array | Q2013A Enterprise NAS | AH167A Enterprise Storage System | Q2S12A Enterprise NAS Storage System |
| Height | 3.5 inches | 3.5 inches | 3.5 inches | 3 inches | 3.5 inches |
| Width | 17.5 inches | 17.5 inches | 17.3 inches | 17 inches | 17.3 inches |
| Depth | 27 inches | 27.5 inches | 24.0 inches | 25 inches | 27.5 inches |
| Weight | 45 lbs | 45 lbs | 45 lbs | 35 lbs | 35 lbs |
Bulk LTO-8 cartridges delivered consistent high capacity performance.
Used across multiple rotations without failures.
Reliable media for enterprise scale backups.
Stable write speeds and clean reads.
A solid choice for LTO-8 libraries.
The Q2078AN LTO-8 Ultrium data cartridge offers 30 TB of compressed (15 TB native) rewritable storage per cartridge.
This product is a pack of 20 non-custom labeled, rewritable LTO-8 Ultrium data cartridges.
The LTO-8 Ultrium cartridge supports up to 360 MB/s native (up to 750 MB/s compressed) sustained data transfer rates.
Yes, LTO-8 drives can read and write LTO-7 media and read LTO-6 media, ensuring backward compatibility.