The IBM System Storage TS3100 Tape Library Express Models are designed to offer high capacity, enhanced performance, and technology for the midrange open system environments.
The TS3100 Tape Libraries now incorporate the IBM Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium 4 Tape Drives, enhancing tape performance over the previous generation IBM LTO Ultrium 3 Tape Drives, with a native data transfer rate of up to 120 MB/sec.
The TS3100 Tape Library is an external 2U stand-alone or rack-mountable unit that incorporates a single IBM LTO Ultrium 4 Tape Drive and has two removable cartridge magazines, one on the left side and one on the right side, providing 24 data cartridge slots, including a single I/O slot. The TS3100 provides a media physical capacity of up to 19.2 TB data storage per unit.