Highlights
- IBM Half Height Generation 2 meets today’s shrinking backup windows with very fast transfer rates of up to 48 MB/s
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- Delivers enterprise-level features at a low cost/GB with capacity up to 400 GB
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- Mounts in a standard half height 5 1/4 inch bay with the industry’s most compact LTO form factor
- Provides outstanding media environment and advanced preventive maintenance features with Smart Gripper™, Media Management, Tape Alert and automatic head cleaning brush
- Linear Tape Open (LTO) Technology delivers a powerful, scaleable, adaptable open tape format.
- Scalability, tested compatibility and support make IBM System x tape backup solutions an excellent investment.
You've chosen IBM System x servers to be the heart of your networked system – power, control and high availability to run your business-critical applications. To maintain your systems availability, IBM offers highly reliable LTO backup solutions. LTO technology an industry-standard, powerful tape architecture meets the growing backup demands of midrange to enterprise-class servers. IBM offers a broad family of LTO tape backup solutions, from the compact price performance of the Half-Height Internal drive to the scalability of tape libraries and autoloaders. Each designed to help you protect your business and your critical data.
Fastest, smallest half-height LTO in the industry
The IBM Half Height LTO Generation 2 offers extremely fast transfer rates (24 MB/sec native, 48 MB/sec compressed) with high capacity of 200 GB (native) and 400 GB (compressed) to minimize backup times. Its compact size (only 8.4 inches deep) provides simple and easy integration into all servers and workstations.
Lowest power consumption for higher reliability
Offering the lowest power consumption (18W operating) among LTO tape drives in the industry, the IBM Half Height LTO Generation 2 has a unique airflow design that reduces the need for a noisy fan and helps minimize heat dissipation throughout the drive for greater reliability and increased MTBF.
Easy scalability to protect investments
Fully compliant with the Ultrium LTO Generation 2 format, the drive protects a company's investment by offering full read/write compatibility with LTO Generation 1 tape drives and media. A five-generation half-height LTO roadmap and backward compatibility insures that your IBM LTO data protection solution can scale to future data capacity requirements.
Enterprise-level Performance
The IBM Half Height LTO Generation 2 features an Automatic Variable Transfer Rate to match host transfer speeds and a state of the art Ultra160 SCSI interface. Combined, these enterprise-level features help maximize data throughput and minimize backup and restore times.
Cartridge Environment Secures Data
The "Smart Gripper" technology securely locks the media leader pin to help insure positive tape loading-the cartridge ejects if a nonconforming condition exists. The drive also includes an embedded media management feature for intelligent diagnostics, tape alerts and an automatic head cleaning brush for advanced preventive maintenance and reduced down times.
Affordable Low Cost per Gigabyte
The IBM Half Height LTO Generation 2 gives small to medium businesses an affordable entry to high performance LTO technology. The IBM HH LTO Generation 2 delivers a low cost per gigabyte that's up to 50% less than LTO Generation 1 tape drives with double the capacity.
Complete Solutions
The IBM Half-Height LTO Generation 2 is available as an internal drive or can be attached externally with one of our numerous external tape enclosures.
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