System Storage TS1140 Tape Drive

Highlights

• Offers best-in-class high performance and high capacity tape processing for storage consolidation
• Provides information security with support for encryption and key management
• Optimizes information retention with support for existing IBM tape automation
• Supports Write Once Read Many (WORM) cartridges to help satisfy compliance requirements

Marketplace and customer demands require applications that rely on high capacity, fast access to data and/or long-term data retention. The IBM System Storage TS1140 Tape Drive (TS1140 tape drive) features storage capabilities to help you establish easy, rapid access to data, better security, long-term retention and data governance and regulatory compliance. The TS1140 tape drive offers high-performance flexible data storage with support for data encryption. The TS1140 tape drive can help you protect your investments in tape automation by offering compatibility with existing automation. To further protect your investment, an upgrade model is available for your existing IBM System Storage TS1130 Tape Drives. And to support a heterogeneous server environment, the TS1140 offers multiplatform support.

The TS1140 tape drive supports the IBM System Storage TS3500 Tape Library and IBM racks that enable stand-alone installation. The TS1140 features three options for media. The 3592 Advanced data tape cartridge, type C, provides up to 4.0 TB native capacity and up to 4.0 TB on the 3592 Advanced WORM cartridge, type Y. A limited capacity of up to 500 GB Economy cartridge, type K, offers fast access to data.

To help optimize drive utilization and reduce infrastructure requirements, the TS1140 tape drives can be shared among supported open system hosts on a Storage Area Network (SAN).