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Autoloader Vs Tape Library

An autoloader has fewer slots and drives than a tape library. It can only access slots sequentially while a tape library can randomly access any of its many more slots. A tape library also has more features that improve reliability, manageability, and scalability such as automatic cartridge identification, inventory management, cataloging, and supporting mixed drive technologies.

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Autoloader Vs Tape Library

An autoloader has fewer slots and drives than a tape library. It can only access slots sequentially while a tape library can randomly access any of its many more slots. A tape library also has more features that improve reliability, manageability, and scalability such as automatic cartridge identification, inventory management, cataloging, and supporting mixed drive technologies.

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Autoloader vs Tape Library

S.No. Feature Autoloader Tape Library

1 No. of drives 1 drive only At least 1 and higher.


Maximum can be up to 960
drives in 1 library
2 No. of slots Either 7, or 9 or 11 depending At least 10. Maximum slots in
upon the manufacturer. Seagate 1 library can be 144000
Autoloader has 11 slots
3 Scalability No Yes
4 Upgradability No Yes
5 Access to Slots Sequential starting from slot Random. The robot can access
no.1 going till the end to any one of the slot
randomly
6 Automatic Identification of No. Autoloader doesn’t have Yes. Barcode scanner or
cartridge barcode scanner to identify Digital Camera (in
cartridge automatically (In an StorageTek) which identifies
automated environment, the cartridges.
cartridges are identified by
Bar-code labels which needs to
be correctly read)
7 Reliability Unreliable. Reliable
1) MSBF for robotics is 1) STK libraries are most
1.5 million . MTBF reliable with MSBF of
figure is not published 2 million and MTBF
but definitely expected of 360,000hrs.
to be lower than library. 2) Can configure more
2) Has only 1 drive so than 1 drive, so failure
failure of 1 drive stalls of 1 drive doesn’t stall
the operation the operation
8 Mixed Drive support No Yes, in STK libraries. You can
have different technologies of
tape drives like LTO ,
DLT,SDLT,etc. in the same
library
9 Automatic Calibration No Yes
10 Central Management No Yes
(Network port is required
for this)
11 Inventory Management (of No Yes ( takes automatic
cartridges inside the inventory of cartridges)
library)
12 Automatic Cataloguing of No Yes
cartridges inside library

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