5486ExtStor.fm Draft Document for Review October 18, 2004
412 IBM Eserver i5 and iSeries System Handbook
Standard LZ1 compression
Support for extended-length cartridges (60GB native capacity, H models)
Fast and wide SCSI-2 interface, Ultra SCSI interface, or native Fibre Channel
attachment
Two ports
Each port can be connected to a different iSeries server and the 3590 can be
shared between two systems.
The 3590 Models B11, E11, and H11 incorporate a standard 10-slot ACF for
high-capacity stand-alone unattended operation. The 3590 Models B1A, E1A,
and H1A come without the ACF. They are designed to go into the IBM 3494
Enterprise Automated Tape Library.
For additional information about all 3590 products, see the following Web site:
http://www.storage.ibm.com/tape/drives/3590/index.html
IBM TotalStorage 3592 Tape Drive Model J1A
The IBM TotalStorage 3592 Tape Drive Model
J1A surpasses the capabilities of its
predecessors by providing up to five times the
capacity and two and a half times the data
transfer rates of the Enterprise Tape System
3590 E or H Model. The IBM TotalStorage 3592
Tape Drive offers:
Up to 300 GB native cartridge capacity. Up to
900 GB with compression using rewritable cartridges.
60 GB short length rewritable native capacity
Average locate time using rewritable cartridges is 30% of the locate time of
using 300 GB cartridges
Up to 40 MB/sec native data rate
Throughput capability of up to 20% more than LTO (type2). Can restore up to
390 GB per hour from a single drive.
Dual fibre channel ports
Note: Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) and Cartridge Scaling is not
supported when the 3592 is attached to IBM Eserver i5 or iSeries servers
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