User manual
The HP Rack-mount Kits provide a high-density, rack-mountable tape drive and removable hard disk drive enclosure
for direct-attach SCSI, USB, and SAS backup and archiving applications. Because these enclosures use standard
internal tape drives and internal removable hard disk drives, they provide a cost-effective means of mounting tape
drives and removable hard disk drives in rack server environments. These enclosures provide customers with
scalability, allowing the customer to add drives and migrate to new tape or removable hard disk drive technologies as
their capacity and performance needs grow. HP Rack-mount Kits are supported by ProLiant, HP Integrity, and
AlphaServer platforms.
1U Rack-mount Kit
Available in SCSI, SAS and USB interfaces, the 1U Rack-mount Kit accommodates up to two half-height internal tape
drives and supports a range of tape technologies, including DAT, and half-height Ultrium, with a maximum capacity of
6 TB using two LTO-5 Ultrium 3000 drives. The USB enclosure supports DAT 40, DAT 72, DAT 160 and the DAT 320
USB tape drives with a maximum capacity of 640 GB per backup session when using two DAT 320 USB drives. The
1U USB enclosure also supports HP RDX 160, 320, 500 and 1 TB Removable Disk Backup Systems with a maximum
capacity of 2 TB per backup session when using two RDX 1 TB USB removable hard disk drives. The 1U SAS
enclosure supports up to two DAT 160 SAS, DAT 320 SAS, Ultrium 448 SAS, Ultrium 920 SAS, Ultrium 1760 SAS and
Ultrium 3000 SAS tape drives with a maximum capacity of 6 TB when using two LTO-5 Ultrium 3000 SAS drives
(assuming 2:1 data compression).
HP 1U Rack-mount Kit
3U Rack-mount Kit
Available in SCSI and SAS interfaces. The 3U Rack-mount Kit holds up to two full-height internal tape drives, four half-
height internal tape drives, or a combination of one full-height and two half-height tape drives. This enclosure supports
a wide range of tape technologies, including DAT, DLT VS, SDLT, and Ultrium, with a maximum capacity of 6 TB using
two LTO-5 Ultrium 3280 or 12 TB with four LTO-5 Ultrium 3000 SAS drives (assuming 2:1 data compression).
HP 3U Rack-mount Kit
QuickSpecs
HP Rack-mount Kits
Overview
DA - 10854 Worldwide QuickSpecs — Version 65 — 10.5.2012
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