Storage at CNAF looks ahead

The new library has a modular structure and at the moment it can host up to 6200 tape cartridges of 20 TB each, for a total potential capacity of 124 PB, which are added to the 84 PB available on the SL8500, to reach a total potential capacity of more than 200 PB.
In this way CNAF is getting ready in time for the next phase (RUN 3) of LHC accelerator, which will start during 2021, and for the requirements of growing space and data rate of the other scientific experiments hosted.
After a first test phase, the new tape library strated working in production by this week.