Lenovo TS4300 3U Tape Library-Base Unit

Overview

• calable tape library that is designed for high capacity, high performance, and high reliability.
• Adherence to LTO specifications.
• Support for half-high (HH) or full-high (FH) LTO Ultrium 9, 8, 7, or 6 tape drives
• Support for up to three half-high tape drives or a combination of one full-high tape drive and one half-high tape drive in each 3U module. The maximum number of drives in the tape library ranges from up to 7 full-high and up to 7 half-high to up to 21 half-high tape drives.
• Native data transfer rate of up to 400 MB/s (Ultrium 9 FH), 300 MBp/s (Ultrium 9 HH), 360 MB/s (Ultrium 8 FH), 300 MB/s (Ultrium 8 HH or Ultrium 7), or up to 160 MB/s (Ultrium 6) per tape drive.
• Native cartridge capacity of up to 18 TB (Ultrium 9), 12 TB (Ultrium 8), 9 TB (Ultrium 7 initialized LTO 8 Type M), 6 TB (Ultrium 7).
• 12Gb SAS, 6 Gb SAS or 8 Gb Fibre Channel attachments for connection to Lenovo servers that run Microsoft Windows or Linux server operating systems.
• Support for LTO 9 media specification tape cartridge compressed capacity of up to 45 TB, 30 TB compressed capacity for LTO8, and 15 TB compressed capacity for LTO7 with 2.5 to 1 compression per cartridge
• Data security and regulatory compliance through support for LME and WORM media on LTO 9, 8, and 7 tape drives
• Two removable magazines in each 3U module that can house up to 20 data cartridges each for a total of up to 280 cartridges in the tape library to enable quick population of the tape library and ease the storage needs for media.