IBM TS1150 Tape Drive

IBM TS1150 Model E08 (3592-E08) is the fifth generation of the highly successful IBM 3592 enterprise tape drive and is designed to provide higher levels of performance, reliability, and cartridge capacity than the TS1140 Model E07 tape drive. The TS1150 has a high-technology, 32-channel GMR head design to deliver a native data rate performance of up to 360 MB/sec versus the 250 MB/sec data rate of the TS1140. TS1150 tape drives have dual-port 8Gbps Fibre Channel interfaces for Fibre Channel attachment to host systems or a switched fabric environment.