Overview 

Massive data growth has led to many ways of handling and securing all that information. Modern use cases like big data, cloud or analytics sometimes require a hyperscale approach to be able to meet the business goals in a cost-effective manner. The IBM TS1160 Tape Drive is a perfect fit for environments that achieve massive scale in computing and it helps lower total cost of ownership. IBM TS1160 Tape drive gives organizations an easy way to improve capacity, deliver fast access to data, and provide secure long-term retention for less than the cost of disk or flash solutions.

Innovation keeps the highly successful 3592 Enterprise Drives always ahead of other drive formats, for example, the new TS1160 provides a significant capacity and throughput increase over the IBM TS1150 with the introduction of the new JE media. Plus, it offers complete integration with Spectrum Software Defined Storage which helps improve data management and reduce storage costs.

The recent enhancement of the sixth-generation TS1160 tape drive improves native capacity to up to 20 TB (up to 60 TB with compression) and can help protect investments in tape automation by offering compatibility with existing automation. 

To help optimize drive utilization and reduce infrastructure requirements, TS1160 can be shared on a storage area network though the existing Fibre Channel 16 Gb, Ethernet 10 Gb or 25 Gb, and now SAS 12 Gb interfaces. It offers multi-platform support and can scale from midrange to enterprise environments, delivering flexible storage for heterogeneous server environments. The TS1160 Tape Drive supports IBM System Storage TS4500 and TS3500 Tape Libraries and racks that enable stand-alone installation.