TS3400 Tape Library

Highlights

• Designed to provide the high capacity and attractive performance of TS1120 tape drives in a smaller automation footprint.
• Available with one or two TS1120 tape drives with 4 Gigabit (Gb) Fibre Channel (FC) attachment.
• Standalone or rack-mountable.
• Supports 3592 media including non-erasable, non-rewritable cartridges.
• May be partitioned into two logical libraries.
• Support for control path and data path failover.
• Support for TS1120 tape drive-based encryption.

The IBM System Storage TS3400 Tape Library is designed to offer the high capacity and performance advantage of the IBM System Storage TS1120 Tape Drive in a smaller automation footprint for System i, System p, System x, System z and other open systems environments. The TS3400 tape library is an external 5U standalone or rack-mountable unit supporting up to two TS1120 tape drives with a data transfer rate of up to 104 Megabytes per second (MBps) per drive.

The TS3400 tape library is an excellent tape storage solution for organisations already using TS1120 tape drives in their data centres who want to use the same technology in remote locations. The TS3400 is also designed for organisations that have limited physical space in their IT environments. The TS3400 can be installed in a standard 19" rack, providing up to 37.8 Terabyte (TB) of compressed tape storage in a 5U space.

The TS3400 tape library has two removable cartridge magazines, providing 18 data cartridge slots. Up to three slots can be used for input/output (I/O) slots and up to two slots can be used as cleaning cartridge slots. The TS3400 tape library provides a media capacity of up to 18 cartridges, allowing for up to 12.6 TB of storage (37.8 TB) with 3:1 compression) when using 700 Gigabyte (GB) extended capacity cartridges.

Common features

• Remote management using a web browser.
• Simple network management protocol (SNMP) functionality.
• Supports Control Path Failover and Data Path Failover.
• Supports TS1120 tape drive-based encryption.
• Supports the use of TS1120 cartridges with non-rewritable, non-erasable capabilities.

Hardware summary

• One to two TS1120 tape drives in a 5U format.
• Up to 18 cartridges in two magazines.
• Up to 12.6 TB native capacity, 37.8 TB capacity at 3:1 compression.
• Small footprint W 17.5 in (445mm) x H 8.71 in (221.45mm) x D 35.23 in (895 mm).

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