page_title: Tape library
hierarchical_section_title: Tape library
caption_attribution_description: English: StorageTek Powderhorn tape library with tape shelves and a robot's arm visible. Visible height of a library is about 180 cm.
context_page_description: In computer storage, a tape library, sometimes called a tape silo, tape robot or tape jukebox, is a storage device that contains one or more tape drives, a number of slots to hold tape cartridges, a barcode reader to identify tape cartridges and an automated method for loading tapes. Additionally, the area where tapes that are NOT currently in a silo are stored is also called a tape library. Tape libraries can contain millions of tapes.
  One of the earliest examples was the IBM 3850 Mass Storage System, announced in 1974.
context_section_description: In computer storage, a tape library, sometimes called a tape silo, tape robot or tape jukebox, is a storage device that contains one or more tape drives, a number of slots to hold tape cartridges, a barcode reader to identify tape cartridges and an automated method for loading tapes (a robot). Additionally, the area where tapes that are NOT currently in a silo are stored is also called a tape library. Tape libraries can contain millions of tapes. 
  One of the earliest examples was the IBM 3850 Mass Storage System (MSS), announced in 1974.
caption: Large StorageTek Powderhorn tape library, showing tape cartridges with barcodes packed on shelves in the front and a robot arm moving in the back
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