IBM joins the 1TB tape drive club | | 2008-07-15 | | IBM is to produce a one terabyte (TB) storage tape drive. The announcement comes the day after Sun’s introduction of its T10000B 1TB tape drive.
Targeted at medium to large enterprise, the IBM System Storage TS1130 is the latest generation of the company’s 3592 tape format. The previous TS1120 drive stored up to 700GB of raw data on a 3592 tape.
With an I/O bandwidth of up to 160MB/sec, the TS1130 performs backups 54% faster than the TS1120 and outperforms Sun’s T10000 series by 40MB/sec.
The TS1130 uses existing 3592 rewritable and WORM cartridges. It offers backwards compatibility with support for Gen 1, 2 and 3 formats supporting both read and write for Gen 2 and read only for Gen1.
The drive uses IBM’s high-tech Giant Magnetoresistive head design, which IBM claims results in fewer data read errors helping to preserve data integrity and subsystem reliability. It also features a special head overcoat technology that helps increase overall life expectancy.
The new system will be available worldwide on September 5 2008 with a starting price of $39,050. IBM is also offering an upgrade for existing drives for $19,500 and backward media compatibility for investment protection.
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