IBM TS2280 Tape Drive is the answer to growing storage requirements and shrinking backup windows. Incorporating the latest generation of leading- edge LTO-8 Ultrium technology, the TS2280 tape drive is suited for handling backup, save and restore and archival data storage needs with higher capacity and higher data transfer rates than the previous generation.

In addition, the LTO Ultrium 8 technology is designed to support media partitioning and IBM Spectrum Archive technology. It also continues to support encryption of data and write-o nce- read- many (WORM) media.

The IBM TS2280 LTO-8 Ultrium tape drive is an excellent tape storage solution for organisations requiring backup and low-cost, archival storage of data. IBM TS2280 provides a physical storage capacity of up to 30 Terabytes (TB) (with 2.5:1 compression). The data transfer performance has increased over the previous LTO Ultrium half-height generation with a transfer rate of up to 300 Megabytes per second (MBps) with 6 Gigabits per second (Gbps) serial attached SCSI (SAS) interface connectivity.

The drive offers two SAS and one Ethernet port per drive to improve availability.