IBM Enterprise Tape Drives
Safeguard data with future-proof cyber resilience and air-gapped isolation
IBM TS1170 tape drive
Overview
Addressing the challenges of secure, scalable and cost-effective data storage that can handle the ever-growing volumes of data and offer quick retrieval can be overwhelming. However, these challenges can be overcome with the IBM Enterpise Tape Drive family which provides secure, high-capacity storage, meeting both the scalability and security concerns as your data needs continue to grow.
Available with interfaces like FC-16 and SAS-12, IBM Enterprise Tape Drives help you protect your investment in tape infrastructure with easy integration with existing automation; or also available in rack-mounted stand alone installation. It also supports the LTFS format in IBM Storage Archive enabling direct, intuitive and graphical access to data.
By providing secure data encryption at rest, it maintains data confidentiality and protection against unauthorized access, helping you meet stringent compliance requirements.
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Benefits
Protect existing investment
Improve performance with 12Gb SAS and 16Gb FC interfaces, while maintaining compatibility with existing IBM tape automation installations. This way, you can protect your existing investment.
Improve tape operations performance
Execute faster data transfer of up to 400 MBps (up to 900 MBps compressed) with two 12 Gb/sec SAS ports or two 16 Gb/sec FC ports.
Enable reliable and cost-efficient connectivity
Achieve great performance, and reliability than other formats, providing a lower TCO. IBM Enterprise Tape Drives are recognized as a state-of-the-art in tape technology.
Get robust data protection
Maintain the security of your sensitive corporate data by implementing a reliable and solid line of defense.
Data earch efficency with RAO
RAO (Recommended Access Order) enables tape control applications to accelerate the retrieval of data from a single tape.
Product Specifications
High capacity, operational simplicity
High capacity up to 50TB native and 150TB compressed helps reduce the need for additional tape drives and cartridges. Use fewer drives to reduce complexity for your tape infrastructure and more than double the compressed capacity of LTO-9 media.
Rack-mounts installation
IBM Enterprise Tape Drives with Fibre Channel interface can be installed on most 19-inch racks through a rack mount kit that provides better space utilization and enables installation and removal from either the front or the back without any tooling.
FC-16 Gb and SAS-12 Gb interfaces
Two different drive generations help optimize drive utilization and reduce infrastructure requirements. Enterprise Tape Drives can be shared on a storage area network through the existing Fibre Channel 16 Gb interface and SAS 12 Gb interface for use in distributed environments.
Protection against cybersecurity threats
Air-gapping enables most tape cartridges to reside in library slots , so they are offline most of the time and are not electronically accesible to hackers or ransomware. Tape provides a robust defense line to offer better protection for sensitive corporate data.
Scalable data protection for most open-systems servers
Supports connectivity to most open-systems servers to help simplify the storage environment and enable flexibility for growth and change in your data center. IBM Storage Protect and other compatible software can be used with IBM Enterprise Tape Drives for storage and tape management.
Intuitive and graphical access with IBM Storage Archive
IBM Storage Archive enables direct, intuititve and graphical access to data stored in tape drives and libraries by incorporating the IBM Linear Tape File System (LTFS) format standard. LTFS compatibility allows tape-stored data to be accessed as if it were on disk or flash storage.
Encryption support
The IBM Enterprise Tape Drives-based encryption and associated IBM Security® Guardium® Key Lifecycle Manager components are supported in a wide range of environments, including select IBM Power® Systems, IBM System x, and other servers running Red Hat® , Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
Explore features and use cases for the most common flash storage products.
TS 1100/ 3592
Enterprise Open Tape Format
TS 1150
- 10 TB
- 360 MBpS
- Downward R2x/W1x compatible
- WORM and Encryption
- LTFS
Under service and upgrade only
TS 1160
- 20 TB
- 400 MBpS
- Downward R1x/W1x
- Compatible
- WORM and Encryption
- LTFS
TS 1170
- 50 TB
- 400 MBpS
- Capacity Format only
- Encryption
- LTFS