IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa Hardware
Announcement ZG14-0114
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The 3592 tape drive communicates with the TS4500 tape library through an
internal Ethernet interface and uses the SARS to isolate failures between media and
hardware.
The 3592 tape drives provide the following performance, capacity, and availability
features:
• N+1 power supplies
• Speed matching
• High-resolution tape directory
• Channel calibration and dynamic adaptive equalization
• Recursive accumulating backhitchless flush
• Backhitchless backspace
• Capacity scaling
• WORM
• Capacity-based and position-based LEOT reporting
• Enhanced format for recording error-correction codes
• Drive mechanical and electrical reliability
• Data compression
• Data buffer with read ahead feature
• Offboard data string searching
• Encryption
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Product positioning
As you compare competitive tape solutions, consider:
• Library scalability, one base frame, up to 3 expansion frames, up to 16 tape
drives per frame (up to 12 in frame 1) and up to 60 per library string
• Capacity, performance, and library management requirements
• Data integrity, reliability, and availability
• Storage usage and application requirements
• Affordability
• Loyalty to legacy or existing tape formats, including LTO and 3592 drive
technology
• Server attachment and operating system support
The TS4500 tape library and related software applications excel in addressing
these requirements and can constitute a functionally rich tape storage solution
incorporating LTO Ultrium and 3592 tape technology. You also gain flexibility of
automated tape library management and unattended save and restore operations.
TS4500 tape library models are a smart choice for tape automation for IBM System
i, IBM System p, or IBM System z products, and System x and other open systems.
The TS4500 tape library utilizes the patented Multi-Path Architecture, designed to
allow homogeneous or heterogeneous open systems applications to share the library
robotics, with ALMS for storage slot pooling and flexible drive assignment.
The TS4500 tape library Base Frame Model L55 offers up to 882 (up to 730 in frame
1) slots for LTO Ultrium tape cartridge media and up to 16 (up to 12 in frame 1)
