IBM LTO3 Tape Drives And Libraries 2007

To help put some clarity around the current range of IBM LTO3 tape drive we have put together a summary. LTO3 is the third release of LTO technology offering 400GB native capacity per cartridge, 800GB compressed. The latest release of IBM drives as shown below offer multiple cartridge capacity on all models. All models support connection to IBM System i, System p, System x and Sun Microsystems machines.

TS3100

No. of drives: 1
Max No. of cartridges 22
Maximum capacity 17.6TB (with 2:1 compression)

TS3200

No. of drives: 1-2
Max No. of cartridges 44
Maximum capacity 35.2TB (with 2:1 compression)
Also offers 3 IO slots and 1 dedicated cleaning cartridge slot

TS3310

Max No. of drives: 18
Max No. of cartridges 396
Maximum capacity 316TB (with 2:1 compression)

TS3500

Max No. of drives: 192
Max No. of cartridges 6887
Maximum capacity 2755 TB (with 2:1 compression)