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IBM Totalstorage 3588 Tape Drive Provides an Ultrium 3 Tape Drive for the 3584 Tape Library Product Announcement February 15, 2005 IBM TotalStorage 3588 Tape Drive provides an Ultrium 3 Tape Drive for the 3584 Tape Library Overview The 3588 Tape Drive Model F3A can be installed in new or installed 3584 At a Glance The IBM TotalStorage 3588 Tape Tape Library Models L52 and D52, Drive Model F3A is designed for and also in installed 3584 Tape The IBM TotalStorage 3588 Tape installation in a IBM TotalStorage Library Models L32 and D32. Drive Model F3A is an IBM LTO 3584 Tape Library to offer high Ultrium 3 Tape Drive that capacity, performance, and Product preview combines IBM tape reliability and performance at open systems technology designed for the The 3588 Tape Drive Model F3A prices. The new Ultrium 3 Tape midrange open systems fulfills the product preview included Drive: environment. This model in Product Announcement letter incorporates the new Linear ZG04-0724 dated November 23, 2004. • Tape-Open (LTO) IBM TotalStorage More than doubles maximum data transfer rate, up to Ultrium 3 Tape Drive, which more IBM intends to introduce and support 80 MB/sec native as compared than doubles maximum tape drive Write Once, Read Many (WORM) to LTO Ultrium 2 throughput data rate performance functionality in products featuring over the IBM LTO generation 2 Tape IBM TotalStorage LTO Ultrium 3 • Doubles cartridge capacity, up Drive (Ultrium 2). It has a native Tape Drives. Earlier non-WORM to 400 GB native physical data transfer of up to 80 MB/sec. In generation 3 drives can be upgraded capacity per cartridge (800 GB addition, with the use of the IBM for WORM support via an update of with 2:1 compression) TotalStorage LTO Ultrium 400 GB the firmware to use the new • Data Cartridge, the 3588 Tape Drive generation 3 WORM Media cartridge Includes a 2-Gbps Fibre doubles the tape cartridge capacity as it is made available. Products will Channel interface attachment up to 400 GB native physical capacity be fully compliant to the LTO • Offers enhanced features over (800 GB with 2:1 compression), as generation 3 standard for WORM Linear Tape-Open (LTO) compared to the IBM Ultrium 2 Tape functionality. Ultrium 2 in new dual stage 16 Drives and cartridges. IBM channel head actuator, new Ultrium 3 Tape Drives can read and Previews provide insight into IBM independent tape loader and write LTO Ultrium 2 Data Cartridges plans and direction. Specific threader motors, and internal and read LTO Ultrium 1 Data availability dates, ordering buffer size Cartridges. The 3588 Model F3A information, and terms and comes with a 2-Gbps Fibre Channel conditions will be provided when the • Adheres to LTO specifications interface for connection to a wide product functionality is announced. spectrum of open system servers. • Mounts in a 3584 Tape Library Model L52, L32, D52, or D32 Other Ultrium 3 Tape Drive Key Prerequisites enhancements to help improve Appropriate levels of host software performance and reliability include are required to attach the 3588 Tape the addition of a new dual stage 16 Drive to selected IBM i5 or head actuator designed to provide iSeries , AS/400 , IBM p5 precision head alignment, new or pSeries , RS/6000 , IBM independent tape loader and xSeries , HP, Sun, UNIX , threader motors with positive pin and Intel servers. Refer to the retention, graceful dynamic breaking Technical information section for designed to maintain tension to help details. prevent stretching or breaking the tape and loose tape wraps, a larger 128 MB internal buffer, and highly Planned availability date integrated electronics using IBM-engineered copper technology. March 4, 2005 This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative. IBM Europe, Middle East, Africa IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. ZG05-0170 independent loader motor coupled with the positive pin Description retention, the tape threads with a higher level of reliability. • Larger internal data buffer — There is a 128 MB internal data buffer in the Ultrium 3 Tape Drive as compared to a 64 MB internal data buffer in the Ultrium 2 Tape Drive. • Highly integrated electronics using IBM-engineered copper technology — designed to reduce the total number of components in the drive, lower chip temperatures, and reduce power requirements, helping to provide for a more reliable drive. The generation 3 drive electronics are also designed to provide “on-the-fly” error correction capability for soft errors in the memory arrays in data and control paths. The IBM TotalStorage 3588 Tape Drive Model F3A is an • IBM Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium 3 Tape Drive Graceful dynamic braking — In the event of power designed for the heavy demands of backup tape storage. failure, reel motors are designed to maintain tension The 3588 Tape Drive Model F3A is designed to mount in and gradually decelerate instead of stopping abruptly, an IBM TotalStorage 3584 Tape Library and has a 2-Gbps helping reduce tape breakage, stretching, or loose Fibre Channel interface for attachment to IBM tape wraps during a sudden power-down. p5 or pSeries, IBM i5 or iSeries, IBM Proven IBM LTO Ultrium features enhanced in IBM LTO xSeries, AS/400, RS/6000, HP, Sun, UNIX, and Intel Ultrium 3 Tape Drive include: servers. • Servo and track layout technology — There are 704 The 3588 Tape Drive Model F3A incorporates data tracks in Ultrium 3 verses 512 data tracks in third-generation IBM LTO Ultrium technology. It offers Ultrium 2. High bandwidth servo system features a the following significant improvements over the low-mass servo to help more effectively track servo Ultrium 2 Tape Drive: bands and improve data throughput with damaged • Maximum tape drive throughput data rate media in less-than-optimal shock and vibe performance is more than doubled, up to 80 MB/sec environments. native data transfer rate. Data tracks are now written • Surface Control Guiding Mechanism — IBM′s patented 16 at a time. IBM Ultrium 3 Tape Drives can read and Surface Control Guiding Mechanism is designed to write, at eight data tracks at a time, LTO Ultrium 2 guide the tape along the tape path in the IBM 3588 Data Cartridges at Ultrium 2 rates, and read LTO Tape Drive. This method uses the surface of the tape, Ultrium 1 Data Cartridges at Ultrium 1 rates. rather than the edges, to control tape motion. This helps reduce tape damage (especially to the edges of Note: Although the 3588 Tape Drive provides the the tape) and tape debris, which comes from the capability for excellent tape performance, other damaged edges and can accumulate in the head area. components of the system may limit the actual performance achieved. Also, although the • Magneto Resistive (MR) head design — Use of flat lap compression technology used in the tape drive can head technology in MR heads for Ultrium 3 helps typically double the amount of data that can be stored minimize contact, debris accumulation, and wear on on the media, the actual degree of compression the tape as it moves over the read/write heads. achieved is highly sensitive to the characteristics of • the data being compressed. Digital speed matching — The Ultrium 3 Tape Drive is designed to perform dynamic speed matching (at one • The tape cartridge capacity is doubled over the of five speeds, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 MB/sec) to adjust the Ultrium 2 Data Cartridge up to 400 GB native physical drive′s native data rate as closely as possible to the capacity (800 GB with 2:1 compression), with the use net host data rate (after data compressibility has been of the new IBM TotalStorage LTO Ultrium 400 GB Data factored out). This helps reduce the number of Cartridge. This is achieved by increasing the linear backhitch repositions and improve throughput density, the number of tape tracks, and the media performance. Speed matching on Ultrium 3 ranges length. The tape itself is an advanced metal particle from 40 to 80 MB/sec versus 17.5 to 35 MB/sec on tape developed to help provide durability and capacity. Ultrium 2. • Ultrium 2 cartridge compatibility — The Ultrium 3 Tape • Robust drive components optimized for automation Drive can read and write on Ultrium 2 cartridges. environments — Drive designed using some of the most robust components available, such as: (1) all • — 2-Gbps Fibre Channel attachment The 3588 metal clutch, (2) steel ball bearings in loader, (3) Model F3A comes with a 2-Gbps Fibre Channel robust leader block design, (4) single circuit card, to interface for connection to a wide spectrum of open help enhance reliability and prolong the life of the system servers. They are supported on AIX , drive. OS/400 , i5/OS, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Linux , and other • Power management — The Ultrium 3 Tape Drive power open systems. management function is designed to control the drive electronics to be either completely turned off or to be • — New dual stage 16 channel head actuator designed in a low-power mode when the circuit functions are not to provide precision head alignment to help support needed for drive operation. higher track density and improved data integrity. • — • Adaptive read equalization designed to New independent tape loader and threader motors and automatically compensate for dynamic changes in — positive pin retention designed to help improve the readback signal response. reliability of loading and unloading a cartridge, and to retain the pin even if tension is dropped. With an ZG05-0170 -2- • Dynamic amplitude asymmetry compensation — The 3584 Tape Library and IBM software applications designed to dynamically optimize readback signals for excel in addressing these requirements and can linear readback response from magneto resistive read constitute a functionally rich tape storage solution head transducers.
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