Today’s enormous growth in data is being fueled by business continuity requirements, regulatory compliance, and information lifecycle management initiatives. Whether your business uses high-performance blade, rack-mount, or tower IBM System x® systems, archiving and retrieving data in a fast, dependable and consistent manner is mission critical to your business. The IBM Half High LTO Gen 5 SAS Tape Drive is the fifth-generation and highest capacity Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium tape drive introduced to address the storage challenges faced by today’s IT organizations.

• Supports the latest generation and highest capacity LTO® media cartridges with a capacity of up to 3.0 TB to help control massive storage growth and demanding costs associated with backup and archiving.
• Provides data transfer rates of up to 280 MBps1 to help shorten the time required to backup and restore.
• Utilizes AES 256 data encryption2 in the drive with no impact to drive performance to help prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data.
• Adaptive data compression, DSM and 256 MB buffer improves drive performance and storage capacity.

Product features

• Improve performance with 6 Gbps SAS interface providing data transfer rates of up to 280 MBps
• Contain dynamic storage growth and costs with 3.0 TB cartridge capacity
• Prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data with no impact to drive performance with AES 256 data hardware encryption
• Reduce power consumption over previous generations for increasingly energy efficient “green” storage
• Protect LTO investment with backward compatible with LTO 4 and LTO 3 media
• Improve reliability with advanced tape threading features, redesigned electronics, and error correction functions to enhance drive robustness and reliability.
• Enhance usability with media partitioning and Long Term File System technology
• WORM support

Hardware summary

• Up to 280 MBps data transfer rate
• Up to 1.5 TB native/3.0 TB with 2:1 compression cartridge capacity
• 256 MB buffer
• 6 Gbps SAS interface
• 16-channel head design
• Media-partitioning support
• AES 256 Encryption
• Write once read many (WORM) support