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Highlights
- Midrange LTO cartridge capacity of up to 1.6 TB1
- Provides data transfer rates of up to 240 MBps1 to help shorten backup times
- Utilizes AES-256 data hardware encryption with no impact to drive performance to help prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data
- Adaptive data compression, Digital Speed Matching (DSM) and a 256 MB buffer improve drive performance and storage capacity
- Backward-compatible with IBM Ultrium LTO-3 and LTO-2 media to protect prior investments
- Future-proofed via forward read/write media compatibility with IBM Ultrium LTO-5 drives
Today’s enormous growth in data volume is being fueled by business continuity, regulatory compliance and information lifecycle management initiatives. Whether your business uses high-performance blade, rack-mount, or tower IBM® System x® and BladeCenter® systems, archiving and retrieving data in a fast, dependable and consistent manner is mission-critical to your business.
The IBM Half High LTO Gen 4 SAS Tape Drive is the 4th-generation Linear Tape-Open (LTO) offering, introducing larger storage capacities, increased performance, and advanced security features to effectively meet the demanding backup, archival and regulatory compliance requirements of your System x and BladeCenter environments.
Common features
- 6 Gbps SAS interface providing data transfer rates of up to 240 MBps
- Affordable storage with 1.6 TB1 cartridge capacity
- Prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data with no impact to drive performance with AES-256 data hardware encryption
- Reduce power consumption over previous generations for increasingly energy efficient "green" storage
- Protect your LTO investment: backward-compatible with LTO-3 and LTO-2 media4 and forward-compatible with LTO-5 drives
- Maximize performance with features like Digital Speed Matching (DSM), Adaptive Data Compression, a large buffer and "On-the-fly" Adaptive Channel Calibration
- WORM cartridge support (non-erasable, non-rewritable format) to meet strict regulatory requirements for data retention
Hardware summary
- Up to 240 MBps data transfer rate1
- Up to 800 GB native /1.6TB with 2:1 compression cartridge capacity
- 256 MB buffer
- 6 Gbps SAS interface
- 16-channel head design
- AES-256 encryption
- Write Once Read Many (WORM) support
- Adaptive Data Compression,
- Digital Speed Matching (DSM)
- Internal 5.25-inch and external 1U half-high offerings
1 Assuming 2:1 compressible data
4 Encrypted files cannot be written to prior-generation media
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