MagStor SAS-HL8-8088 LTO8 HH SAS External Tape Drive

The SAS-HL8-8088 LTO8 HH SAS External Tape Drive from MagStor is an IBM-based LTO8 tape drive in an external tabletop enclosure. It supports both TAR and LTFS formats with compatible third-party software that supports IBM LTO8 tape drives. This drive connects to your host Windows 10 or macOS 10.11+ system using a SAS-2 6 Gb/s SFF-8088 interface and supports LTO8 media with a native capacity of 12TB with read/write speeds of up to 300 MB/s. It is backward compatible with LTO7 media that have a native capacity of 6TB and read/write speeds of up to 300 MB/s. Included is a power cable and an SFF-8088 to SFF-8088 mini-SAS cable.

12TB native capacity

Native read/write speeds up to 300 MB/s

6Gb SAS SFF-8088 Interface

LTFS compatible with drag and drop

TAR compatible

LTO media archive life of up to 30 years

Built-in PSU

TAA compliant (tape drives made in Japan)

IBM Spectrum Archive Single Drive Edition (CLI MAC, GUI Windows)

PreRollPost

myLTO

StorageDNA

YoYotta LTFS

Third-Party LTFS-enhanced archive/backup software

Third-Party TAR-based backup software, Acronis, etc.