Imation L1400 28882 Data Sheet

Product codes
28882
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Data Sheet
L1400 LTO
®
 4U  
Tape Library
High Capacity 4U Tape Library
Small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) understand the 
importance of safeguarding their valuable information, but 
many balk at the expense and headache of deploying a data 
archive solution. Now Imation brings enterprise-strength 
tape archiving within reach. Made for Imation, manufactured 
by IBM®, the L1400 LTO 4U Tape Library is an affordable, 
easy-to-use library system that’s right-sized for SMBs.
Enterprise Strength 
Tape Archiving right-
sized for SMBs
Comprehensive capabilities and 
features don’t come at the cost of 
complexity; the Imation L1200 LTO 
2U Tape Library is designed for easy, 
intuitive installation and configuration, 
as well as more flexible operation:
6 GB/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or 
8 GB/s Fibre Channel (FC) interface 
provides simple connectivity to a wide 
variety of server hardware.
Remote library management through 
a standard Web interface provides 
flexibility, improved administrative 
control over storage operations.
AES 256-bit hardware-based 
encryption ensures information on 
LTO-5 tape cartridges is secure; WORM 
(Write Once Read Many) LTO-5 and 
LTO-4 cartridges prevent data from 
being deleted or altered.
Backward compatibility and a roadmap 
to future capacity expansion protect 
your investment in Imation LTO tape 
storage solutions.
Optional Linear Tape File System 
(LTFS) which lets users and 
applications use LTO-5 cartridges as 
if they were hard drives, but at much 
lower cost-per-GB; supports media 
partitioning for faster data access, 
improved management.
Utilizing Linear Tape-Open (LTO) technology, the leading open 
system tape created by a consortium of leading storage producers 
including IBM, the Imation L1400 LTO 4U Tape Library gives 
SMBs the flexibility they need to simultaneously manage rapid, 
unpredictable growth in digital content while still meeting strict 
industry regulations for retention, retrieval and recovery, and 
relaying of data.
When equipped with LTO-5 tape drives, the Imation L1400 LTO 4U 
Tape Library delivers the highest LTO storage capacity (up to 1.5 TB 
native on each Imation LTO-5 tape cartridge, or up to 3.0 TB with 2:1 
software compression) and data transfer rates (up to 140 MB/sec) 
to date; this gives a total capacity of up to 72 TB native (144 TB with 
2:1 compression). This combination of performance and capacity 
enables SMBs to handle ever-increasing demands for data storage 
while ensuring shorter, more efficient backup windows. 
The Imation L1400 LTO 4U Tape Library contains four removable 
cartridge magazines (two on either side of the unit), each offering 
12 data cartridge slots for a total of 48 slots. In addition, the lower 
left magazine includes a three-slot I/O station to help support 
continuous library operation while importing and exporting media. 
A bar-code reader is also standard, supporting the  
library’s operation in 
sequential or random 
access mode.
Flexible, easy to 
administer and 
infinitely scalable, the 
Imation L1400 LTO 4U 
Tape Library enables 
SMBs to reduce 
content storage costs, 
ensure regulatory 
compliance and safeguard  
their valuable data.
Imation L1400 LTO
® 
4U Tape Library