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HPE StoreEver LTO-8 Ultrium 30750 External Tape DriveFor enterprises demanding scalable, secure, and cost efficient data protection, the HPE StoreEver LTO 8 Ultrium 30750 External Tape Drive delivers eight generations of LTO technology in an external, easy to integrate solution. Designed to handle large scale backups, long term archival, and disaster recovery readiness, this drive combines high capacity media, hardware based encryption, and streamlined data access through LTFS StoreOpen. With up to 30TB
For enterprises demanding scalable, secure, and cost-efficient data protection, the HPE StoreEver LTO-8 Ultrium 30750 External Tape Drive delivers eight generations of LTO technology in an external, easy-to-integrate solution. Designed to handle large-scale backups, long-term archival, and disaster-recovery readiness, this drive combines high-capacity media, hardware-based encryption, and streamlined data access through LTFS StoreOpen. With up to 30TB of compressed capacity per cartridge, it enables organizations to maximize storage efficiency, reduce tape inventory, and simplify recovery workflows while maintaining strong security and reliability. Whether you’re building a robust offsite backup strategy, consolidating multiple workloads, or meeting strict compliance requirements, the HPE StoreEver LTO-8 external tape drive offers a dependable foundation for data protection in modern data centers.
- Massive capacity and scalability: Harness the power of LTO-8 Ultrium technology with native capacity up to 12 TB per cartridge and compressed capacity up to 30 TB. This substantial capacity reduces the number of tapes needed for large backups, accelerates offline storage cycles, and supports long-term retention policies without compromising performance or reliability.
- Hardware encryption for data security: Built-in AES-256 encryption protects data at rest on tapes, helping meet stringent security standards and regulatory requirements. Encryption can be quickly enabled to safeguard sensitive information against theft or loss while maintaining seamless backup and restore operations.
- StoreOpen LTFS for file-based access: LTFS StoreOpen delivers a familiar, file-system-like interface on top of tape storage, enabling drag-and-drop access and straightforward data recovery across supported platforms. This lowers the learning curve, speeds up restores, and enhances cross-team collaboration when sharing archives.
- Enterprise-grade reliability and performance: Engineered for data-center workloads, the external design supports frequent media exchanges, consistent write/read performance, and resilient operation within corporate backup pipelines. It complements a wide range of server configurations and backup software ecosystems, delivering predictable recovery times and robust protection against data loss.
- Broad compatibility and easy integration: The drive works with major backup software and operating systems, simplifying implementation within existing infrastructures. Its external form factor and SAS connectivity enable straightforward integration into data protection architectures, virtualization environments, and hybrid cloud strategies.
Technical Details of HPE StoreEver LTO-8 Ultrium 30750 External Tape Drive
- Media and capacity integration: Compatible with LTO-8 Ultrium cartridges, offering native capacity of 12 TB per cartridge and up to 30 TB compressed capacity per cartridge to support scalable archival and backup workflows.
- Data transfer rates: Native streaming performance up to approximately 360 MB/s. With data compression, throughput can approach around 900 MB/s, depending on data type and compression ratio, enabling efficient handling of large backup sets.
- Interface and connectivity: External SAS interface designed for high-throughput connections to servers and storage backends, ensuring reliable data movement in busy data-center environments.
- Security enhancements: Hardware-based AES-256 encryption protects data at rest on tape media, helping organizations meet privacy and regulatory requirements without impacting backup performance.
- Software accessibility and standards: Includes LTFS StoreOpen support for easy, cross-platform file access, enabling straightforward data retrieval and interoperability with common backup and archival tools.
- Form factor and durability: External tape drive with a robust chassis suitable for data-center deployment, designed to endure frequent media handling and long operational lifetimes in high-demand environments.
how to install HPE StoreEver LTO-8 Ultrium 30750 External Tape Drive
- Position the drive in a secure, well-ventilated area near your server or workstation and ensure there is adequate rack or desk space for maintenance access.
- Connect the external SAS cable to the host system and verify that the server or workstation supports the SAS interface (typically 12 Gb/s) required by the drive. Provide power to the drive to begin initialization.
- Install any necessary drivers or management utilities from HPE’s official support portal so the operating system can recognize the device and expose it to backup software.
- Configure the tape drive within your backup or data management software, enabling LTFS StoreOpen if you plan to perform file-based access or cross-platform data transfers. Set encryption and media-handling policies according to your security requirements.
- Load a compatible LTO-8 cartridge, verify labeling and orientation, and perform a test backup and a mock restore to validate the installation, media pathways, and recovery procedures before moving into production use.
Frequently asked questions
- What capacity does this drive support? The HPE StoreEver LTO-8 Ultrium 30750 External Tape Drive supports LTO-8 media with native capacity up to 12 TB per cartridge and up to 30 TB compressed capacity per cartridge, enabling efficient scalable backups and archives.
- Does it include hardware encryption? Yes. The drive provides hardware AES-256 encryption to protect data at rest on tapes, helping you meet security and compliance standards without impacting performance.
- What is LTFS StoreOpen used for? StoreOpen LTFS provides a file-based access method for tape data, allowing drag-and-drop operations and easier cross-platform data sharing, which can simplify restores and file-level access to archived content.
- Which interfaces does the drive support? The unit uses an external SAS interface designed for high-throughput data transfer between the drive and server/storage infrastructure, suitable for enterprise backups and DR workflows.
- Is the drive compatible with common backup software? Yes. It is designed to work with major backup and archival software across Windows, Linux, and other common operating environments, making it a versatile component of mixed IT environments.
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★★★★★ 4
Powerful Family History
Format: Paperback
After the birth of her son, Thi Bui feels an increased sense of urgency about learning the stories of her own parents. Like all but her youngest sibling, she was born in Vietnam, though the children came of age in the United States. While the war itself haunts all of them, was the reason they left their homeland, the wounds her parents bear go far beyond the military conflict. This was only the second graphic novel I’ve ever read (both have been memoirs), and like the first was also selected by my book club. I feel like the limitations of the format mean it will always be a less preferred one for me, because I found myself wanting more words, more depth to the writing itself. But the story is deeply compelling, detailing her father’s brutal childhood, her mother’s much softer one, how they came together, and how the Vietnam War disrupted the future they thought they might have. It’s not as straightforward as “Americans bad”, and Bui is not afraid of the moral ambiguity of that time and place, where the best interests of the majority of the Vietnamese people was an open question for larger forces that seemed to have little room for consideration of what might have actually made regular lives easier to lead. And apart from the larger geopolitical machinations around them, the family had their own share of tragedy, including the death of their first child and a later stillbirth. But three living children and another on the way was enough for her parents to make frantic arrangements to leave, finally succeeding and eventually making their way to the United States. But of course, that was not the end of their story, just the beginning of a new chapter. Bui’s childhood as she depicts it makes it clear that it wasn’t the stuff dreams are made of, but what shines through is her tremendous empathy for her parents and how they became the people she experienced them as. Overarching the narrative is a meditation on parenthood, as it is the birth of her own child that inspires her to ask her parents more. They might have made major mistakes, but it is clear that they loved their children and did what they thought was best for them, making countless sacrifices to give them the best opportunities possible, even if that love was not always shown the way that they wanted and needed to feel it. Vietnamese perspectives on the war in their country were not something I was exposed to growing up (honestly the Vietnam War itself wasn’t something I remember being taught with particular rigor in high school apart from its connection to electoral politics), and I appreciated learning more about the history of the country and how the people who actually lived through the conflict thought about it. Even though this is not my preferred format, I think Bui uses it well to engage in some non-linear storytelling and to very literally illustrate what she’s trying to get it, like the way she parallels the way her relatively rural parents must have felt seeing Saigon for the first time with the way she felt when she first moved to New York, a sense of awe and possibility. It’s a powerful, moving work and I would recommend picking it up!
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Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Truly, the best we could do
Format: Kindle
An excerpt from my analysis essay I submitted for my literature course: By revisiting her family’s past from before, during, and after the Vietnam War, she gained a deeper understanding of the emotional burdens her parents carried and the sacrifices they made that defined the entirety of their lives. Bui’s illustrated graphic memoir reveals that trauma does not simply disappear over time; instead, it becomes inherited, processed, and transformed. Through this process, Thi Bui is able to move toward empathy for her parents, acceptance of who they are, and a more complete sense of self.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Phenomenal. A must-read!
Format: Paperback
I first learned about this book only a week ago when visiting my sister for Thanksgiving in Eugene, Oregon. We went to the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art where I saw some work on display by the author, and there was a copy of her book available to look at, so I perused through and decided to buy it and read it. I'm so glad that I did! This is an incredible, poetic story that spans four generations, multiple wars and conflicts, and examines the fragility of the author's relationship with her parents and with her sense of place and motherhood. This book is one of the best I've read in a long time, and the art is moving and beautiful. It gave me new insight into the struggles of refugee life, and created a truly relatable narrative. I devoured this story in one Saturday. I highly recommend it.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2018
★★★★★ 5
A well composed memoir
Format: Paperback
Full review on nguyentoread.com
The Best We Could Do is Thi Bui's graphic memoir. Thi was born in Vietnam three months before the Vietnam War reached what we consider to be the end of the war. She came to America with her family in 1978. Bui's memoir spans multiple generations. In learning of her mother's and father's pasts, we learn the history of their parents. We see the struggles and pains of two people from very different walks of life trying to live during a time of war and chaos. We see glimpses of the agony everyone in the middle of the Vietnam War faced. Those who were not directly involved on either side but were caught in the middle of larger powers at war. This memoir more closely details the lives of her parents leading up to them arriving in America and making their life there. I was unsure if this memoir would focus largely on the experience of being a Vietnamese immigrant in America. There were parts that showed how it was for Bui's parents in a country where tensions were still high after the Vietnam War, where discrimination largely due to that was overt, and where degrees were not recognized and people who had spent their lives working and creating careers for themselves were not qualified for most work and had to hurdle multiple challenges to learn a language and complete education all over again if they wanted to provide a better life for their children. What Bui so beautifully captures in this memoir is the why behind how her parents were in raising her. Although Bui was born in Vietnam she was young when her family arrived in America. So I think her experience is one that many first generation Vietnamese-American people of my generation can understand and sympathize with. The wanting to know why their parents are the way they are but unable to ask because many have parents, like Bui's mother, who reluctantly share their stories and don't allow their children that glimpse that could help them better understand. In the panel which was most poignant to me, Bui draws her father as he looks over her work that would become The Best We Could Do. He says "You know how it was for me. And why later I wouldn't be... normal."
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Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2019
★★★★★ 5
This book made me love my parents more
Format: Kindle
I loved the raw depictions of vietnamese history and human emotions. I recommend this book to anyone experiencing intergenerational trauma. 5 stars, this book helped me understand my father and mother just a little more, and that is priceless
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Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2025