Lenovo IBM TS2280 Tape Drive

• Long-term tape storage for backup & archive
• Easy access to data on LTO Ultrium 8 cartridges, through IBM Linear Tape File System (LTFS) technology
• Media-partitioning on LTO Ultrium 8 media & LTFS

Features

• Provide long-term backup and archive storage data protection while lowering overall storage costs
• Easily access data stored on Linear Tape-Open (LTO)
• Support media partitioning on LTO Ultrium 8 media
• Interchangeable Ultrium 8 and Ultrium 7 tape media

Storage requirements have inevitably grown alongside rising data volumes in today’s information-driven enterprises. Besides primary storage, backups have become increasingly important for disaster recovery and regulatory compliance.

The IBM TS2280 Tape Drive answers those business needs by incorporating the latest generation of industry-leading LTO technology that will help organizations handle the growing data demands of modern tape use cases like Big Data, cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), media and entertainment, digital video surveillance, active file archiving and, of course, for backup.

The TS2280 provides even higher capacity than the previous generation. For small and midsized businesses requiring backup and low-cost archival storage of data, TS2280 is an excellent tape-storage solution, providing a physical storage capacity of up to 30TB per cartridge (with 2.5:1 compression).

The drive boasts an uncompressed data transfer rate of up to 300MBps (up to 750MBps with 2.5:1 compression) with 6Gbps SAS interface connectivity. For flexible network integration, this compact external drive offers both two SAS ports and one Ethernet port, and can be rack mounted or used in stand-alone configuration. The dual SAS ports allow daisy-chaining a second SAS device.

The TS2280 6Gbps SAS interface enables it to connect to a wide spectrum of open-system servers. The LTO Ultrium 8 tape media provides partitioning support, which, in conjunction with IBM Spectrum Archive, provides users with filelevel access to tape data.

This support helps users quickly locate and update information on the tape media. LTO Ultrium 8 technology is also designed to natively support data encryption, with core hardware encryption and decryption capabilities resident in the LTO Ultrium 8 tape drive itself.