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IBM System Storage TS2230 Tape Drive Express Model

High capacity, performance half-height Linear Tape-Open Tape Drive

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Highlights

  • An entry-level Ultrium™ tape solution for the midrange and network tape storage environments
  • Designed to provide cost-effective backup, save and restore, and archival storage external to the server
  • Double the storage capacity of existing HH LTO2 drives in the market
  • Adheres to widely supported Linear Tape-Open® (LTO) standards

Today, data is a key corporate asset in all types of businesses. The ability to access data quickly and reliably is critical to your success. Whether your business utilises a high-performance network server or individual workstations, archiving and retrieving data in a dependable and consistent manner is mission critical.

The IBM System Storage™ TS2230 Tape Drive Express LTO3 HH Model—the entry-level IBM System Storage tape product family offering—is the answer to growing storage requirements and shrinking backup windows. By leveraging advanced Linear Tape-Open technology and the half-high format, the TS2230 Tape Drive is suited for handling the backup, save and restore, and archival data storage needs of a wide range of small systems.

The System Storage TS2230 Tape Drive Express LTO3 HH Model is an excellent tape storage solution for businesses requiring backup or low-cost, real-time archival of their data within a small window of time. The TS2230 has a storage capacity of up to 800 GB (with 2:1 compression) in conjunction with the IBM TotalStorage® LTO Ultrium 400 GB data cartridge, which is double the capacity of the Ultrium 2™ technology. Along with its higher capacity, the performance of the TS2230 Tape Drive has more than doubled over the previous generation of half-high LTO drives in the market for a native data transfer rate of up to 60 MBps. The TS2230 Tape Drive provides an excellent alternative to slower and smaller capacity 1/4-inch, 4 mm and 8 mm DLT/SDLT tape drives.

Common features

  • The IBM System Storage TS2230 Tape Drive Express LTO3 HH Model is an external half-high drive incorporating the 3rd generation of IBM LTO technology. This is an external stand-alone or rack-mountable unit, similar to previous models of the 3580 full-high drive and is the entry point for the family of IBM Ultrium tape products. The TS2230 Tape Drive provides an excellent migration path from digital linear tape (DLT or SDLT), 1/4-in., 4 mm, or 8 mm tape drives. The TS2330 Express LTO3 HH Model can read and write LTO Ultrium 2 Data Cartridges and read LTO Ultrium 1 Data Cartridges.

Hardware summary

  • Features the IBM Half-High Ultrium 3 Tape Drive
  • Adheres to the widely supported LTO specification which promotes standardisation and allows for multiple media and drive providers
  • Provides superior performance and capacity attributes for unattended backup within small-midrange server environments
  • Compatible with major operating systems and ISV applications

Feature Benefit
Half-high LTO 3
  • Retains the same capacity of the full-high, same generation LTO 3 tape drives with slightly less performance in data transfer rate
  • Lower list price than full-high LTO 3 tape drives
LVD SCSI attach
  • Widely used and accepted industry standard for server attach in the open system environment
3 Gbps SAS attach
  • SAS is the next-generation SCSI interconnect, designed to replace Parallel SCSI to provide better manageability and performance. SAS offers point-to-point architecture, enhanced scalability and compatibility with SATA
WORM capable
  • Linear Tape Open, Generation 3 provides for WORM support (Write Once, Read Many) with WORM media—thus helping customers comply with government and customer requirements in specific industries
Bundled Offering
  • Provides customers with external stand-alone tape drive as well as a rack mount kit, should a customer require rack mounting

Model number: 3580S3E (SAS version); 3580L3E (LVD SCSI version)
Rack-mount option: 96P1565
Characteristics
Tape drive type: IBM LTO Ultrium 3 Half-High
Capacity per cartridge1: Up to 800 GB compressed; 400 GB native
Sustained data transfer rate: Up to 60 MBps native
Media type: IBM Ultrium 3
Data cartridge: IBM TotalStorage LTO Ultrium 400 GB Data Cartridge (P/N 24R1922)
Cleaning cartridge: IBM TotalStorage LTO Cleaning Cartridge (P/N 35L2086)
Dimensions: 25.0 cm W x 6.0 cm H x 27.5 cm D (9.85 in x 2.36 in x 10.8 in)
Weight: 4.08 kg (9.03 lb)
Warranty: Three-year, Customer Replaceable Unit (CRU) service in most countries
Operating environment
Temperature: 10° to 38° C (50° to 100° F)
Relative humidity: 20% to 80% (non-condensing)
Electrical power: 1.0–0.5 A at 100–240 V AC, 50/60 Hz
Attachment and systems support 2: The TS2230 features an LVD Ultra160 SCSI and a 3 Gbps SAS interface attaching to IBM p5, System p™, i5, System i™, System x™, RS/6000®, RS/6000 SP™, AS/400® and Netfinity® systems as well as to non-IBM servers and workstations. The TS2230 connects to Fibre Channel server adapters through selected IBM Storage Area Network Data Gateway products.
Operating systems support: Native device driver support is available for IBM AIX®, OS/400® and i5/OS®; Microsoft® Windows® 2000 (build 2195 or greater) and Windows Server® 2003 (build 3790 or greater); Sun Solaris 8 and 9; HP-UX 11.0 and 11i; and Red Hat Enterprise Linux® 3; SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8.

1 Based on 2:1 compression

2 Contact your IBM Representative for additional information

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