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Half High LTO Gen 5 SAS Tape Drive Next-generation performance and capacity for improved total cost of ownership
Today’s enormous growth in data is being fueled by business continuity requirements, regulatory compliance, and information lifecycle management initiatives. Whether your business uses high-performance blade, rack-mount, or tower System x® systems, archiving and retrieving data in a fast, dependable and consistent manner is mission critical to your business. The Half High LTO Gen 5 SAS Tape Drive is the fifth-generation and highest capacity Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium tape drive introduced to address the storage challenges faced by today’s IT organizations.
the performance of this next-generation tape drive is faster than previous releases of half-high LTO drives achieving a native data transfer rate of up to 140 MBps, which is 75 percent faster than LTO 3 Half High drives
Greater capacity and speed
In addition, a patented compression algorithm to optimize compression speed is used. The compression algorithm synchronously swaps the data compression scheme dynamically between ALDC (adaptive lossless data compression) and a pass-thru mode. While data compression is being performed, a separate circuit—that performs simultaneous decompression— helps provide data integrity.
The fifth generation of LTO tape drives offers almost twice the capacity and significantly faster throughput than the preceding Ultrium LTO 4 generation of drives. This becomes the ideal storage solution for businesses requiring backup or low-cost, real-time archival of their data within a small window of time. With 2:1 compression, the new LTO 5 drive has a storage capacity of up to 3.0 TB. Along with higher capacity,
To further increase performance, Digital Speed Matching (DSM) will adjust the drive’s native data rate to better match the data rate of the server. This feature, along with a 256 MB buffer, will improve data throughput and reduce tape repositions and wear for times when the host data rate is less than optimal.
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Half High LTO Gen 5 SAS Tape Drive
Securing your data
For enhanced serviceability, it also captures error information. These errors are stored in the drive’s flash memory so that it can be recalled when needed to minimize troubleshooting time.
Businesses are proactively focusing on securing sensitive customer and business data. With increasing regulatory and compliance requirements, the need to secure data for audit and compliance purposes has become critical. LTO Generation 5 tape drives utilize AES256 encryption and support write once, read many (WORM) cartridges to help protect your data.
“Green” storage with lower total cost of ownership Even with the increased speed and capacity, this efficient tape drive consumes 48 percent less power than previous generations of LTO tape drives—which is ideal for “green” storage environments and reduced operating costs.
Investment protection Compatibility with Ultrium LTO 4 and LTO 3 tape drives (excluding encryption) and media eases the introduction of these high-performance tape drives into your environment and protects your prior investments in media. LTO 5 is backward read-and-write compatible with LTO 4 media and readcompatible with LTO 3 media. However by using LTO 5 media, which provides almost double the capacity of Ultrium 4 media, you will shorten read/write times, reduce the number of tapes required, and improve the backup window.
Tape drives are inherently environmentally and economically more friendly than other storage sources—with lower power requirements, lower cooling requirements, and lower costs per gigabyte. The high performance of the HH LTO 5 Tape Drive combined with the high capacity of the Ultrium 5 tape cartridge can reduce the number of drives and cartridges required in a storage or archive environment. Together, these all serve to reduce your overall total cost of ownership.
Greater data protection with reliability and serviceability
Fifth generation advanced features
With a focus on overall reliability, HH LTO 5 utilizes advanced independent tape loader and threader motors. This, combined with positive pin-retention improvements, increases tapehandling reliability while loading tapes, recovering tapes, and extracting tapes after a sudden power down. In addition, the Partial Response Maximum Likelihood (PRML) channel includes an adaptive-channel calibration feature. This feature enables the drive to compensate for variations in the media, recording function, and read/write head to optimize interchangeability between LTO drives from other vendors.
Partitioning and Long Term File System—LTO Ultrium Generation 5 Half-High Tape Drives with LTO Ultrium 5 Tape Media introduce partitioning support to LTO technology, which, in conjunction with Long Term File System technology, provide the ability to have file-level access to tape data. This unique support allows information to be quickly located and updated on the tape media.
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Specifications
Form factor
5.25 in. Half Height Internal
Half Height External
Options #
49Y9898
3628N5X/3628L5X (W/Nema 5-15p Line Cord)
Capacity per cartridge*
3.0 TB compressed*; 1.5 TB native
Sustained data transfer rate*
Up to 280 MBps compressed*; 140 MBps native
Media type
LTO Ultrium 5, 4 and 3
Data cartridge
LTO Ultrium 5 (rewritable 5-pack 49Y9899), LTO Ultrium 5 (WORM)
Cleaning cartridge
Universal cleaning cartridge (49Y9893)
Backward compatibility
Read/write-compatible with Ultrium LTO 4 media Read-compatible with Ultrium LTO 3 media
Interface
6 Gbps SAS
Data compression
SLDC (LTO data compression per ECMA-321)†
Encryption
AES256
Buffer
256 MB
Data rate matching
Digital speed matching 40 - 140 MBps
Physical Characteristics Dimensions (with bezel)
148 mm W × 42.7 mm H × 210 mm D (6 in. W × 2 in. H × 8 in. D)
213 mm W × 58 mm H × 332 mm D (8.4 in. W × 13.1 in. H × 2.3 in. D)
Weight
1.6 kg (4 lb)
4.3 kg (9.4 lb)
Operating temperature
10° to 45°C (50° to 100°F)
10° to 40°C (50° to 104°F)
Relative humidity
10% to 80% (non-condensing)
20% to 80% (non-condensing)
Warranty
Limited 1-year
Limited 3-year
Operating environment
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In addition it provides some of the following benefits: ●● ●
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Helps provide greater flexibility and access with a selfcontained tape data cartridge Enables process improvement with sharing of data between different platforms Reduces tape, file management, and archive costs by eliminating the middleware layer Provides visibility to what is stored on a tape media cartridge by viewing a directory tree
For more information To learn more about the Half High LTO Gen 5 SAS Tape Drive, contact your Lenovo marketing representative or Business Partner, or visit: ibm.com/systems/xtape * Based on 2:1 compression. †
Prior to the release of ECMA-321, SLDC (streaming lossless data compression) was known as “LTO-DC.” SLDC uses ALDC as its primary data compression scheme, but also has a pass-thru scheme to avoid the expansion of incompressible data—a problem ALDC and most other compression algorithms encounter.
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