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• Designed to support the IBM Ultrium 5, Ultrium 4 or Ultrium 3 (HH only) Tape Drive, for increased capacity and performance including Low Voltage Differential (LVD) SCSI (LTO 4 only), fibre-channel and SAS attachments

• Designed to offer outstanding capacity, performance and reliability for midrange and network tape storage environments in a 4U form factor with the 48 data cartridge slots and a mail slot

• Designed to support cost-effective backup, save and restore and archival storage in sequential or random access mode with a standard bar-code reader

• Remote library management through a standard Web interface designed to offer flexibility and greater administrative control of storage operations

• 8 Gb fibre channel or 6 Gb SAS interfaces in LTO 5

• LVD SCSI drive, 4 Gb fibre channel (only FH) or 3 Gb SAS interfaces in LTO 4

• Use of up to four LTO Half-Height Tape Drives

• Stand-alone or rack-mount option

The TS3200 Express Model and its storage management applications are designed to address capacity, performance, data protection, reliability, availability, affordability and application requirements. It is designed as a functionally rich, entry tape-storage solution incorporating LTO Ultrium tape technology. The IBM TS3200 Express model is an excellent solution for large-capacity or high-performance tape backup with or without random access. The TS3200 is also an excellent choice for tape automation for IBM Power Systems™, IBM System x® and other open systems.

The IBM TS3200 Tape Library Express is well-suited for handling backup, save and restore and archival data-storage needs for small to medium-size environments. With the use of up to two LTO Full Height tape drives or up to four LTO Half-Height tape drives and 48 tape cartridge capacity, the IBM TS3200 model is designed to use LTO technology to cost-effectively handle growing storage requirements. The TS3200 Tape Library is configured with four removable cartridge magazines, two on the left side (24 data cartridge slots) and two on the right (24 data cartridge slots). Additionally, the lower left magazine includes a three-slot I/O station to help support continuous library operation while importing and exporting media. A bar-code reader is standard in the library, supporting the library’s operation in sequential or random access mode. The TS3200 also comes standard with remote management capabilities to allow for remote administration of the tape library through a Web interface. Path Failover, an optional feature, is designed to provide automatic control path failover to a preconfigured redundant control path in the event that a host adapter or control path drive is lost without aborting the current job in process.

The IBM Ultrium 5 technology is designed to provide greater capacity with continued support for encryption of data. The hardware encryption and decryption core and control core resides in the IBM Ultrium 5 tape drive (available to the TS3200 with the 6 Gbps SAS and 8 Gbps FC interface). A larger internal data buffer in the Full Height drive helps improve data access rates and reduce cartridge fill and rewind times along with dynamic channel calibration to help increase data throughput. In addition to reading and writing to LTO 5 tape cartridges, the LTO 5 tape drive can read and write to LTO 4 cartridges and read LTO 3 cartridges with improved data rates. The IBM Ultrium 5 tape drive is designed to support up to 140 MBps native data-transfer rates and up to 1.5 TB native physical capacity when using the IBM System Storage Ultrium 1.5 TB Data Cartridge (3.0 TB with 2:1 compression). The TS3200 featuring Ultrium 5 tape drives has a capacity of up to 72 TB native (144 TB with 2:1 compression).

The IBM LTO 4 tape drives are designed to support up to 120 MBps native data-transfer rates. In addition, the TS3200 featuring Ultrium 4 tape drives has a capacity of up to 38.4 TB (76.8 TB with a 2:1 compression).

The IBM TS3200 Tape Library Express featuring Full Height and Half Height technology offers an 8 Gbps fibre-channel and 6 Gbps SAS interfaces for Ultrium 5 drives. While for Ultrium 4 drives, offers an LVD SCSI, 4 Gbps FC (FH only) and 3 Gbps SAS interface, and it can be attached to a wide variety of open-system servers. The sequential or random access library comes in a stand-alone or optional rack-mountable configuration. The IBM TS3200 also has an LCD display and indicators for power, drive and activity, error status and message information.

Feature		Benefits
IBM LTO Ultrium 5, 4 and 3 Tape Drive Designed to offer high capacity and performance Half Height supports SAS and FC (LTO 5 only) attachment Full Height supports LVD SCSI (LTO 4 only), fibre channel and SAS interfaces
Sequential or random access mode with a standard barcode reader Designed to offer cost-effective functionality Effective backup, save and restore and archival storage capabilities
4U form factor with 48 data cartridge slots Designed to offer outstanding capacity, performance and reliability for midrange and network tape storage environments
Remote library management through a Web interface Designed to offer flexibility and greater administrative control of storage operations
Ultrium 5 native data capacities up to 72 TB (144 with 2:1 compression) Ultrium 4 native data capacities up to 38.4 TB (76.4 with 2:1 compression) Ultrium 3 native data physical capacities up to 19.2 TB (up to 38.4 TB using 2:1 compression) Designed to offer high capacity and performance
Ultrium 5 native data rate of 140 MBps Ultrium 4 native data rate of 120 MBps Ultrium 3 Half Height native data rate up to 60 MBps Supports high performance to address the demands of your business

Drive options

Ultrium 5 Full Height: 6 Gbps SAS (FC # 8245 or 46X2683); 8 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC # 8244 or 46X2682) Ultrium 5 Half-Height: 6 Gbps SAS (FC # 8247 or 46X2685); 8 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC # 8248 or 46X2684) Ultrium 4 Full Height: LVD SCSI (FC # 8143 or 95P5002), 3 Gbps SAS (FC # 8145 or 95P5006); Fibre Channel (8144 or 95P5004) Ultrium 4 Half-Height: 3 Gbps SAS (FC # 8147 or 45E2243) Ultrium 3 Half-Height: 3 Gbps SAS (FC # 8047 or 95P5000)

	Available models:		3573 4UL: TS3200 Tape Library Model L4U Driveless
	Optional feature codes Path Failover 45E9503 or FC # 1682 Transparent LTO Encryption 45E3081 or FC # 5900 Rack mount 23R6998 or FC # 7002 Right-side magazine set Left-side magazine, upper Left-side magazine, lower 23R6999 or FC # 8106 45E2225 or FC # 8107 45E2231 or FC # 8108 Ultrium Tape Cartridges Ultrium 5 media: 46C2084 or FC # 8505/Ultrium 4 media: 95P4278 or FC # 8405/Ultrium 3 media: 95P2020 or FC # 8305 Ultrium Cleaning Cartridge 23R7008 or FC # 8002 Additional Power Supply 23R7263 or FC # 1901 Tape drive type IBM LTO 5 Full-Height and Half-Height; IBM LTO 4 Full-Height and Half-Height; IBM LTO 3 Half-Height Number of drives 1-4 Number of tape cartridges 48 Number of mail slots 3 Physical capacity Up to 3.0 TB per cartridge compressed; 1.5 TB native with LTO 5 Up to 1.6 TB per cartridge compressed; 800 GB native with LTO 4 Up to 800 GB per cartridge compressed; 400 GB native with LTO 3 Up to 144 TB per tape library compressed; 72 TB native with LTO Ultrium 5 Up to 76.8 TB per tape library compressed; 38.4 TB native with LTO Ultrium 4 Up to 38.4 TB per tape Library compressed; 19.2 TB native with LTO Ultrium 3 Data transfer rate (per drive) Up to 140 MBps native with LTO 5 Up to 120 MBps native with LTO 4 Up to 60 MBps native with LTO 3