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IBM TS2900 Tape Autoloader

By Tony Pearson posted Thu September 18, 2008 08:10 PM

  

Originally posted by: TonyPearson


Continuing this week's theme on products that were part of last week'sIBM Information Infrastructure launch, today I'll cover the TS2900.

TS2900IBM System Storage TS2900 Tape Autoloader

This little baby is SWEET! At 1U high, it holds a single drive and up to 9 cartridges,up to a total of 14.4 TB at 2:1 compression. Thedrive can be a Half-Height (HH) LTO-3 or LTO-4 drive. (It is called an autoloader because there isonly a single drive. Automation with multiple drives are called libraries).

This can be rack-mounted, or sit on your desktop. There is an I/O station for insertingor removing individual cartridges, as well as a removable tape magazine to populate orremove the tapes in a more efficient manner.

Both LTO3 and LTO4 support a mix of regular and "Write Once, Read Many" (WORM) media tohelp comply with regulations demanding "Non-erasable, Non-rewriteable" storage. TheLTO4 can also support on-drive encryption, managed by the IBM Encryption Key Manager (EKM).

To learn more, see the IBM System Storage[TS2900 page].

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