NEO 4000e
Designed to address the most challenging midrange storage requirements, the NEO 4000e’s embedded capabilities ensure your backups are faster, smarter, easier and more affordable.
This scalable, multi-modular design easily grows your business with configurations starting at 48TB and scaling to 180TB within a single 10U module. Join multiple 4000e modules together (or mix and match with 2000e modules) to expand up to 720TB. Redundant robotics maximizes data availability, AES 256-bit encryption maintains security, and broad connectivity support of SCSI, FC, or SAS ensures that your NEO 4000e will integrate seamlessly into your environment.
With This Product You Can…
- Effortlessly scale your storage capacity from 48TB to 720TB
- Efficiently manage your backup and archive processes from anywhere in the world
- Ensure data availability through redundant robotics and components
- Keep your data secure with AES 256-bit encryption
- Flexibly customize your capacity, performance, and connectivity to meet your needs
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LTFS
LTFS functionality allows a tape cartridge to look just like a file system in which a the cartridge can be “mounted” just like a hard drive or thumb drive.
Highlights
- Drag and drop functionality and familiar directory tree interface ensures simplicity and ease of use
- Linux, Windows, and Mac drive availability ensures wide spread compatibility
- Facilitates tape media interchange
- Reduces cost of ownership by eliminating the need for backup software
Why You Need It…
- Ensures fast, efficient, easy-to-use, affordable archive of file system data
Remote Management
NEO remote management provides intelligent, proactive administration and monitoring of the tape library, tape drives and media, ensuring a seamless backup and archive process.
Highlights
- 10/100-BaseT Ethernet connection
- Provides tape drive and tape cartridge status information
- Enables remote configuration activities
- Alerts user to unusual/suspicious activity that may affect the backup/archive process via email or SNMP traps
- Enables remote firmware upgrades
- Provides remote diagnostics capabilities
Why You Need It…
- Provides convenient and reliable management of the backup/archive process from anywhere in the world
Expandability/Scalability
NEO Series expandability/scalability features allow you to dynamically adjust your storage capacity and performance as your data storage needs change, adapting to ever-changing environments with a minimal amount of disruption while protecting your original library investment.
Highlights
- NEO 8000e can be scaled up to 1,000 cartridge slots and 24 tape drives by adding a 2nd module to the base unit, providing enterprise class functionality.
- NEO 2000e and NEO 4000e can be scaled with either additional NEO 2000e modules or NEO 4000e modules, for an almost limitless combination of capacity and performance designed to specifically fit your storage needs
- Flexible expandability and scalability allow you to reconfigure multi-module units and redeploy them as needed
Why You Need It…
- Provides the flexibility to meet changing data storage requirements
Removable Cartridge Magazines
NEO Series removable cartridge magazines provide effortless media handling for loading/unloading of cartridges while facilitating off-line storage for disaster recovery purposes.
Highlights
- Allows users to conveniently add/remove cartridges in their NEO library
- Provides easy off-line handling of multiple cartridges
- Enables convenient off-line/off-site storage of cartridges for disaster recovery purpose
- Ensures more efficient media handling both inside and outside of a NEO Series library
Why You Need It…
- Reduces administrative overhead by making media handling more efficient and reliable
Upgradable Tape Drives
Avoid those dreaded forklift upgrades when new tape technologies become available. With NEO Series libraries, you can upgrade your drives and media on the fly. Installing and removing tape drives in is quick and easy. LTO drives maintain backward compatibility to previous generation tapes, so you won’t orphan any data during the upgrade process. This approach not only protects your investment, but also minimizes administrative overhead, and reduces service/maintenance costs.
Highlights
- Users can easily remove/replace tape drives to provide effortless upgrades to next-generation tape drive technologies
- Downtime costs are eliminated by enabling end user replacement of tape drives (no waiting for a service tech to show up)
- Tape drives can easily be added to existing tape libraries for increased performance and efficiency
- Tape drives can be interchanged between NEO libraries for increased investment protection
Why You Need It…
- Protects your original library investment and reduces administrative overhead
Encryption
Provides increased data security to prevent unauthorized access to highly sensitive or
mission-critical data.
Highlights
- Monitor I/O trends
- Detect bottlenecks
- Improve overall performance
Why You Need It…
- To prevent unauthorized access of confidential data
Partitioning
NEO Series partitioning capability allows you to configure a single physical library into multiple virtual libraries.
Highlights
- Improves efficiency of the backup/archive process by enabling multi-tasking within the same library
- Enables you to configure a single NEO library to interface with different backup servers, regardless of their connectivity type (SCSI, SAS, FC, etc.)
- Protects your investment by allowing you to simultaneously use a single NEO library with a variety of backup software applications
Why You Need It…
- To maximize efficiency and improve cost of ownership
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| # of tape cartridge slots | 60 | ||||
| # of tape drives | 1-4 | ||||
| # of mail slots | 0, 1, 15, or 30 | ||||
| Tape drives supported | LTO6, LTO5, LTO4 | ||||
| Minimum Capacity (per module) | LTO6: 150TB LTO5: 90TB | ||||
| Maximum Capacity (per module) | LTO6: 375TB LTO5: 180TB | ||||
| Maximum Capacity (maximum # of modules) | LTO6: 1.5PB LTO5: 720TB | ||||
| Minimum data transfer rate (per module) | LTO6: 576GB/hr LTO5: 504GB/hr | ||||
| Maximum data transfer rate (per module) | LTO6: 5.8TB/hr LTO5: 4TB/hr | ||||
| Maximum data transfer rate (max # of module) | LTO6: 23TB/hr LTO5: 16TB/hr | ||||
| Interfaces | LTO6: 8Gb FC, 6Gb SAS LTO5: 8Gb FC, 6Gb SAS | ||||
| Connectors | Mini-SAS (8088), LC optical fibre | ||||
| Form Factor | 10U | ||||
| Dimensions (inches – unpackaged) | 17.5”h x 16.7”w x 31”d | ||||
| Dimensions (inches – shipping) | – | ||||
| Weight (pounds – unpackaged) | 171 | ||||
| Weight (pounds – shipping) | 199 | ||||
| Avg. cartridge swap time | – | ||||
| Inventory time | – | ||||
| Power Requirements | 344 watts (nominal) | ||||
| Input Requirements | 100 to 240 VAC, 50 to 60 Hz | ||||
| Humidity (non-condensing; operating) | – | ||||
| Temperature range (operating) | – | ||||
| Reliability | >4,000,000 MCBF (robotic load/unload cycles) | ||||
| Standard Warranty | 1-year Overland Care Level 2: 9×5 NBD onsite; NBD advanced parts replacement; 24×7 telephone support | ||||
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NEO® 8000e | NEO® 4000e | NEO® 2000e | NEO® 400s | NEO® 200s | NEO® 100s | |
| Best Fit For | Very large, data-intensive businesses needing high-availability backup and archive of mission critical data | Large businesses with high-performance, high-capacity data storage needs | Mid-sized businesses with rapidly changing IT environments experiencing high data growth | Mid-sized businesses with moderately growing data storage requirements | Small businesses or remote locations with growing data storage requirements | Budget-constrained small businesses or remote locations with moderate data storage requirements |
| Capacity | 80TB – 3.1PB | 48TB – 375TB | 24TB – 187.5TB | 38.4TB – 300TB | 19.2TB – 150TB | 7.2TB – 56TB |
| Performance | 504GB/hr – 17.3TB/hr | 504GB/hr – 5.8TB/hr | 504GB/hr – 2.9TB/hr | 432GB/hr – 5.8TB/hr | 432GB/hr – 2.9TB/hr | 432GB/hr – 1.4TB/hr |
| Drive Support | LTO-6, LTO-5, LTO-4 | LTO-6, LTO-5, LTO-4 | LTO-6, LTO-5, LTO-4 | LTO-6, LTO-5, LTO-4 | LTO-6, LTO-5, LTO-4 | LTO-6, LTO-5, LTO-4 |
| Form Factor | 43u | 10u | 5u | 4u | 2u | 1u |
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