E7W46A HPE MSL6480 LTO-7 Ultrium 15000 FC Drive Kit

E7W46A HPE MSL6480 LTO-7 Ultrium 15000 FC Drive Kit

HPE tape backup / archive component — LTO drive / media / library / autoloader / cartridge / cleaning for HPE backup deployments.

Specifications

• Part Number: E7W46A
• Brand: HPE
• Component: See item_group (LTO Drive / Media / Library / Autoloader / Cartridge / Cleaning / PSU / Magazine / Barcode Reader)
• Generation: LTO-5 (1.5TB) / LTO-6 (2.5TB) / LTO-7 (6TB) / LTO-8 (12TB) / LTO-9 (18TB native) — compressed 2.5×
• Interface: SAS 6G/12G / Fibre Channel 8G/16G — see PN
• Form Factor: Half-height (HH) / Full-height (FH) drive — see library model

Compatibility

HPE tape drives are LTO-generation-compatible: LTO-N drives read/write LTO-(N-1) media (1 backward) and read LTO-(N-2) (2 backward). LTO-9 broke this — only reads LTO-9.

• Standalone drives: SAS / FC external — connect to backup server HBA
• Tape autoloader (1U / 2U / 4U): 8-24 slot library for small-medium environments
• Tape library (4U-40U+ enterprise): hundreds-thousands of slots, partitioned, multi-drive, robotic arm
• Media compatibility: LTO-9 reads only LTO-9; LTO-8 reads LTO-8/LTO-7; LTO-7 reads LTO-7/LTO-6/LTO-5
• WORM media: Write-Once-Read-Many for regulatory compliance (SEC 17a-4, HIPAA, GDPR retention)

Use Cases

Long-term archive / backup-target for Veeam / NetBackup / Commvault / TSM / HPE StoreOnce / Dell PowerProtect. WORM for regulatory compliance. Air-gapped backup tier for ransomware protection. Offsite vault rotation. Low TCO for petabyte-scale cold archive (compared to spinning disk or cloud).

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