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| Part Number: | BC023A |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer: | HPE |
| Backup & Storage: | Tape Drive |
| Model: | Ultrium 30750 |
| Description: | Buy HPE BC023A LTO-8 Ultrium 30750 Tape Drive. Genuine part with fast worldwide shipping from Euroland IT Store UK. |
| Availability: | In Stock |
The HPE BC023A is an LTO-8 Ultrium 30750 tape drive from the StoreEver family, aimed at organisations deploying or expanding LTO-8 backup capacity as a planned purchase rather than an emergency repair. Where spare part numbers such as 882185-001 exist to fix a failed unit, BC023A is the option SKU procurement teams order when specifying new backup infrastructure, adding drives to an environment, or standardising a refresh across sites.
Capacity is the headline: each LTO-8 cartridge written by the HPE BC023A holds up to 12TB native and up to 30TB compressed, so a compact set of cartridges can absorb full weekly backups, monthly archive sets and multi-year compliance data. Transfer performance keeps growing datasets inside their backup windows, hardware compression stretches every cartridge, and drive-level encryption capability protects media leaving the building for offsite storage. Written cartridges can be pulled from the drive and shelved, giving you an offline, air-gapped copy that no network-borne threat can encrypt.
For backup administrators, BC023A hits a sweet spot in the LTO roadmap: a mature, widely supported generation with deep media availability, backward compatibility with LTO-7 cartridges, and an upgrade path onward to LTO-9. It is equally at home as a standalone-attached drive for a single backup server or as part of a broader StoreEver strategy.
Euroland IT Store, a trusted UK supplier of new and refurbished enterprise hardware, stocks the BC023A tape drive in both conditions as part of a wide range of HPE hardware. Refurbished drives are tested before dispatch and warranted; new units are available for procurement policies that require them. Contact us for a quote on the HPE BC023A, bundles with LTO data cartridges and configuration advice.
Specifying the HPE BC023A gives you current-mainstream tape capacity without early-adopter pricing. Thirty terabytes compressed per cartridge translates into a very low cost per terabyte for retention data, and cartridges on a shelf cost nothing to run, a sharp contrast with disk arrays or cloud tiers that bill every month. The air gap is equally valuable: an LTO-8 cartridge sitting in a fire safe cannot be encrypted by ransomware, making tape written on a BC023A the recovery copy of last resort many cyber-insurance policies now expect.
If you are repairing a failed library drive rather than specifying new capacity, the HPE 882185-001 30TB LTO-8 MSL tape drive is the matching spare part. Backward compatibility with LTO-7 media protects existing archives, while forward readability into LTO-9 through kits like the HPE R6Q74A MSL LTO-9 45000 drive upgrade kit means nothing you write today gets stranded.
Euroland IT Store supplies the BC023A new for strict procurement environments and refurbished for budget-conscious deployments, with every refurbished unit tested before dispatch and covered by warranty. UK stock means short lead times, and our team can bundle media, HBAs and SAN connectivity so your backup project arrives complete.
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