150 TB IBM Tapes Hit The Market
Search Data Backup, Friday, September 8,2023
IBM's new enterprise tape drive brings 50 TB of native capacity and 150 TB compressed for archiving large amounts of data and is a sign of investment in an old storage medium.
IBM released a new version of its enterprise tape drive, giving customers twice the capacity over its previous model and showing how one of the oldest forms of storage is still evolving.
Unveiled last month, IBM TS1170 provides 50 TB of native capacity and 150 TB of capacity with compression in an IBM 3592 form factor cartridge, also known as TS11xx or TS. The tape cartridges can be used in IBM's TS4500 Tape Library and Spectra Logic's TFinity ExaScale, T950 and T950v libraries.
Doubling capacity shows a significant R&D investment by IBM, according to Christophe Bertrand, an analyst at TechTarget's Enterprise Strategy Group. The increase in capacity is aimed at large use cases such as long-term archiving, active archiving and cyber-resilience vaulting.