The TS2350 Model S53 Tape Drive uses a 6 Gbps dual port Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface for connection to a wide spectrum of system servers. The new TS2350 attaches to the IBM System p5®, IBM Power® System Model p6, and IBM Power System Model p7, and to IBM System x® and PC servers. The TS2350 also supports Microsoft® Windows®, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, and UNIX®.
The following IBM TS2350 S53 Full-high LTO Ultrium 5 Tape Drive enhancements are designed to help improve performance, capacity, and reliability:
- Native data transfer rate of up to 140 MB/sec
- Ultrium 5 data and WORM tape cartridge native physical capacity of up to 1.5 TB
- 6 Gbps SAS attachment support
- A 512 MB internal buffer
- Application managed encryption support for full-high LTO Generation 5 SAS tape drive
- 8 KB cartridge memory with Ultrium 5 media
- Full-high drive form factor
- Two SAS ports per drive to improve availability and attachability
- IBM Long Term File System partitioning support
- Better integrated electronics using IBM-engineered copper technology
This release of the IBM Long Term File System software application leverages LTO5 tape partitioning. It is designed to enable a self-describing tape file format and to deliver an easy tape storage and distribution