Inside a Storagetek 9310 tape library

Wow!! Nice to know there are still 9310s in operation! Can you make another video, showing more in-depth looks (outside, components, software, etc), and also with the robot working with cartridges, etc? Thanks!

Seen a few silos like this. They're beasts thats for sure. That's a heck of a lotta tape.

So did some quick math if they're using 2GB tapes it's about 30TB of data, maybe 3-20TB usable data depending on that tape is used, so basically we could have that in 1-2 modern hard drive or 2 LTO 8 cartridges :) though considering at the time this would've been quite a lot of data.

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Wow~

wow , i was STK engineer for 15 years , i love those machine

I remeber these, use to have a bunch of them, sadly they were all were removed years ago. Couldn't believe how fast the robot acquired tape when they did the upgraded to powderhorn.

Would love to seen in it in action

I used to make the wall panels for those

Now I know where rogue one pulled its inspiration from

I have one of this machine and I want to sell it, someone interested?

as a young storage engineer this is cool to see

If u r using Netbackup, I hope you know which tape you are backing up the NB dbase to.... I say that from the backup department's actual experience....

My god it's full of tapes

and todays biggest size for one of them is 1440TB ....imagine all 15.000 drives in that size...

... sorry im busy backuppings all of the worls data

But what is actually on the tapes?

im mildly horny

IBM field tech must have had a desk right next to this monster.

I want one. Id like to see it run.

A google search down memory lane made me stumble across this video. I worked for a company called Seismograph Services Limited who were then taken over by Schlumberger. The whole operation moved to a building (still there) right next to Gatwick airport. These tape silos eventually put me out of a job. I spent hours sticking bar code labels on 3480 and 3490 cartridges to sadly seal my own fate.

But... What do they do ? 😯👀

We had these at the THEN Apple Data Center located in Napa, CA. There was a camera mounted on each of the retrieval arms that you could watch in the NOC. Some of the craziest stuff to watch as the arms were spinning too and fro grabbing tapes and shoving them into tape drives for backups... and then picking them outta the drives and either dropping them in the retrieval bin or putting them back in an empty spot on the wall.

If you could retrofit the system to LTO-9 tapes and drives, that would have a capacity of 270,000 TB uncompressed. Neat

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