IBM System Storage TS3100 LTO-3 Tape Library

Excellently designed to yield capacity, speed and performance, the IBM System Storage TS3100 LTO-3 Tape Library is suitable for small to medium businesses looking for large scale automated backups. Renting these storage tape library provides for a cost effective back up, retrieval and archive for all types of storage environments. It comes with 2 x LTO-3 internal tape drives and offers a capacity of 9.6TB Native, 19.2TB compressed data per tape. The speed is commendable — at a rate of 80MB/sec Native, 120MB/sec compressed per drive. The tape library comes with an Ultra 160 SCSI (VHDCI) connection, is Read LTO1, LTO2 compatible, and supports the media comprising 24 x Type I SDLT tapes.

The configuration of the TS3100 LTO-3 IBM Tape Library consists of two removable cartridge magazines, one each on the left and right sides. To support an uninterrupted functioning of the library while importing and exporting media, there is a single mail slot on the left magazine. A bar-code reader in the TS3100 LTO-3 tape library supports its functioning in sequential and random access modes. This IBM storage drive also offers remote management capabilities, through a web interface. This storage library is mainly used for all kinds of backups and for the final digital archiving, such as for storing business enterprises’ huge transaction records for auditing or for legal purpose. TS3100 LTO-3 Tape Library is also ideal for maintaining a reliable system of rarely used but important files.