In 2002 we were still installing and relocating StorageTek’s so called Powderhorn 9310 tapelibrary

Below you see a configuration that we de-installed and packed for oceanfreight to Borneo, Indonesia

Later on the Powderhorn 9310 was replaced by the SL8500 tapelibrary, which is still in use after StorageTek became Sun and Oracle shortly after

Below the positioning and installation of a SL8500 at Sara in Almere in 2004

As disk storage has become more and more popular you might think tape storage is at a disadvantage here, but the amount of data currently being placed on tape continues to rise, because for some jobs tape is best

We recently positioned and installed two Oracle SL8500’s again for storage up to 96 Exabyte each