IBM TS1150 Model E08 (3592-E08) is the fifth generation of the highly successful IBM 3592 enterprise tape drive and is designed to provide higher levels of performance, reliability, and cartridge capacity than the TS1140 Model E07 tape drive. The TS1150 has a high-technology, 32-channel GMR head design to deliver a native data rate performance of up to 360 MB/sec versus the 250 MB/sec data rate of the TS1140. TS1150 tape drives have dual-port 8 Gbps Fibre Channel interfaces for Fibre Channel attachment to host systems or a switched fabric environment.
The 3592 tape drives deliver the following performance, capacity, and availability features:
- N+1 power supplies
- Speed matching
- High resolution tape directory
- Channel calibration and dynamic adaptive equalization
- Recursive accumulating backhitchless flush
- Backhitchless backspace
- Capacity scaling
- WORM
- Capacity-based and position-based LEOT reporting
- Enhanced format for recording error-correction codes
- Mechanical and electrical drive reliability
- Data compression
- Data buffer with read ahead feature
- Offboard data string searching
- Encryption
TS1150 Tape Drive (machine type 3592) is the fifth generation for the highly successful 3592 Tape Drive. It is designed for high-performance tape applications, including:
- High-speed data-save operations where backup windows are critical and large amounts of data are archived to tape
- Large-scale automated tape environments where performance and reliability are required
- Large-scale mass data archive applications where massive amounts of data need to be quickly saved to tape for storage and later recalled, such as data warehousing, record management applications, and within the seismic industry
The TS1150 tape drive is available in a standalone tabletop enclosure with display
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800.663.5523