Technical Details for IBM System Storage TS3200 Tape Library Model F3H

IBM System Storage TS3200 Tape Library Model F3H ... Tape Library Express Model F3H is designed to offer high capacity, performance, and technology for the midrange open systems environment and is an addition to the family of IBM System Storage tape library offerings. The TS3200 Tape Library is an external 4U stand-alone or rack-mountable unit that incorporates up to two Linear Tape-Open (LTO) IBM TotalStorage Ultrium 3 Tape Drives, which more than doubles tape drive performance over the previous generation IBM LTO Ultrium 2 Tape Drives. It has a native data transfer rate of up to 80 MB/sec.

The TS3200 Tape Library incorporates IBM's patented Multi-Path Architecture with logical library support for single or multi-server attachment of homogeneous or heterogeneous systems or applications. The TS3200 Tape Library Express Model F3H comes with an Ultrium 3 4 Gb Fiber Channel Drive, which allows connection to a wide spectrum of open systems servers.

The TS3200 Tape Library has four removable cartridge magazines, providing 44 data cartridge slots, one 3-slot I/O station, and one dedicated cleaning cartridge slot. Remote management and a bar code reader are standard in the library, allowing the library to run in sequential or random access mode.