Model: IBM 3580-L23

The IBM 3580 Model L23 comes with a SCSI Ultra160 LVD attachment. The Ultrium Tape Drive 3580 Model L23 incorporates the IBM LTO Ultrium 2 Tape Drive. The IBM LTO Ultrium 2 Tape Drive is the second generation LTO Ultrium Tape Drive in the IBM TotalStorage LTO Ultrium family of products. The Ultrium 2 Tape Drive offers significant improvements over the Ultrium 1 Tape Drive.

The IBM Ultrium Tape Drive offers breakthroughs in reliability, capacity and performance to meet the backup and archival needs for small to midrange environments.

• IBM unique contoured, flat head design and patented surface control guiding
• High capacity -- up to 400 GB/cartridge, compressed
• Increased data transfer rates -- 35 MB/sec native and up to 70 MB/sec compressed
• Easy to understand drive information with continuous LCD status display
• Superior data and media reliability
• Cost-effective since there are fewer cartridges to buy and store
• Excellent entry-level, table top Ultrium tape backup solution
• Adheres to widely supported Linear Tape-Open (LTO) design specifications

Ultrium 2 models of the IBM TotalStorage Ultrium External Tape Drive have a capacity of up to 400 GB with compression (2:1) with the use of the new IBM TotalStorage LTO Ultrium 200 GB Data Cartridge. IBM Ultrium 2 Tape Drives can read and write first generation LTO Ultrium Data Cartridges at original capacities and with improved performance. As your needs grow, you can build on this storage investment by moving to higher capacity and performance automated libraries employing the new IBM Ultrium 2 tape drive technology. With its higher capacity and tape drive performance that more than doubles up to 35MB/sec native data transfer rate (70 MB/sec with 2:1 compression), the new IBM Ultrium External Tape Drive 3580 is an excellent alternative to DLT/SDLT; 1/4-inch, 4mm or 8mm tape drives.

Advanced Features:

The IBM TotalStorage Ultrium External Tape Drive 3580 features Ultra 160 SCSI Low Voltage Differential (LVD) or Ultra SCSI High Voltage Differential (HVD) interfaces and can attach to IBM and non-IBM servers and workstations that support these interfaces. As a SCSI-attached tape solution, the IBM Ultrium External Tape Drive connects to Fibre Channel server adapters through selected IBM Storage Area Network Data Gateway products

• Capacity cartridge: Up to 400 GB compressed; 200 GB native
• Data transfer rate: Up to 400 GB compressed; 200 GB native
• Aggregate sustained Data rate: Up to 252 GB/hour compressed
• Cleaning Cartridge: IBM TotalStorage LTO Cleaning Cartridge (PN 35L2086)

Attachment and systems support

The IBM 3580 features Ultra SCSI LVD and Ultra SCSI HVD interfaces, attaching to IBM ~ pSeries™, IBM ~ iSeries™, IBM ~ xSeries™, IBM RS/6000®, IBM RS/6000 SP, IBM AS/400®, and IBM Netfinity® systems, and non-IBM servers and workstations. As a SCSI-attached tape solution, the IBM 3580 connects to Fibre Channel server adapters through selected IBM Storage Area Network Data Gateway products.

Operating systems support

Native device driver support is available for AIX® ; OS/400®; Windows NT®; Windows® 2000; Sun® Solaris®; HP-UX; and Red Hat® Linux®