Preserve your data cost-effectively with IBM
Full range of tape storage products
Including drives, autoloaders, libraries, virtual tape systems, and IBM Spectrum Archive software.
Tape goes high speed
'Flape' storage uses intelligent software-defined storage to combine the cost and performance advantages of flash, tape and SDS.
More than 60 years of tape innovation
IBM continues to push the limits of capacity and the boundaries of tape technology innovation going forward.
FLAPE
By placing data in the right tier at the right time — in a way that’s transparent to applications — flash and tape, or FLAPE, change the economics of storage.
IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Family
The new member of the family, the TS7770, includes enhanced security, scalability, reliability, and performance for today's mainframe environments. The TS7700 family of solutions can help you address the growing data protection and retention requirements of today’s world with an increasingly cyber-resilient infrastructure.
Maximum capacity (native) 2.37 PB
Drive type: TS1100
IBM Tape Libraries
Full range of tape libraries and autoloaders to protect, access and manage data in entry, midrange and enterprise environments.
IBM TS4500 Tape Library
Next-generation cloud storage library.
- Maximum capacity with LTO-8 / TS1160: 278 PB / 351 PB
- Drive Type(s): LTO and/or TS1100
- Maximum number of drives: 128
IBM TS4300 Tape Library
High-density, highly scalable and easy-to-manage.
- Maximum capacity with LTO-8: 3.36 PB
- Drive Type(s): LTO FH & HH
- Maximum number of drives: 21
TS2900 Tape Autoloader
Low-profile, entry-level IBM LTO tape storage
- Maximum capacity with LTO-8: 108 TB
- Drive Type(s): LTO HH SAS
- Maximum number of drives: 1
IBM LTO® Tape Drives
TS2280 Tape Drive
- Maxiumum format capacity (native): 12 TB
- Other format capacities (native): 6 TB (LTO-7), 9 TB (LTO-7 Type M)
- Native data rate: Up to 300 MB/s
TS2270 Tape Drive
- Maxiumum format capacity (native) : 6 TB
- Other format capacities (native): 2.5 TB (LTO-6), 1.5 TB (LTO-5 R/O)
- Native data rate: 300 MB/s
TS2260 Tape Drive
- Maxiumum format capacity (native): 2.5 TB
- Other format capacities (native): 1.5 TB (LTO-5), 800 GB (LTO-4 R/O)
- Native data rate: 160 MB/s
TS1100 Tape Drives
TS1160 Tape Drive
- Maximum format capacity (native): 20 TB (JE), 15 TB (JD)
- Other format capacities (native): 10 TB (JD), 7 TB (JC)
- Native data rate: 400 MB/s
- FC-16 Gb or Ethernet 10Gb interface attachment
TS1150 Tape Drive
- Maxiumum format capacity (native): 10 TB (JD), 7 TB (JC)
- Other format capacities (native): 4 TB (JC)
- Native data rate: 360 MB/s
TS1140 Tape Drive
- Maxiumum format capacity (native): 4 TB (JC), 1.6 TB (JB)
- Other format capacities (native): 1 TB (JB), 700 GB (JB) (All JA R/O)
- Native data rate: 250 MB/s
TS1155 Tape Drive
- Maxiumum format capacity (native): 15 TB (JD), 7TB (JC)
- Other format capacities (native): 10 TB (JD), 4 TB (JC, R/O)
- Native data rate: 360 MB/s
IBM 7226 Multimedia Storage Enclosure
Deploy a low-profile design configuration with up to four storage devices in a 1U space in a 19-inch rack.
Enable the performance and capacity enhancements of half-high Linear Tape-Open (LTO)® Ultrium®, DVD-RAM or Remote DBA Experts, LLC (RDX) removable disk drives.
IBM Spectrum Archive
Get direct, intuitive and graphical access to data stored in IBM tape drives and libraries. IBM Spectrum Archive makes tape as easy to use as disk storage by incorporating the Linear Tape File System (LTFS) format standard for reading, writing and exchanging metadata on formatted tape cartridges.
Get storage your way with IBM Storage Utility Offering
Transform your virtual tape library CAPEX costs to OPEX as you better align capacity costs to business needs. IBM Storage Utility Offering delivers a cloud-like consumption model as your storage demands change to meet your business requirements. Get the IBM Cloud experience, on demand and always available, while focusing on driving business value through your data and business applications. Discover our cloud-like consumption, pay-as-you-grow capacity pricing.
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Drives
Performance and capacity for midrange to high-end storage with low cost of ownership
Automation/libraries
Full range of tape libraries and autoloaders to protect, access and manage data in entry, midrange and enterprise environments.
Media
Setting the standard in storage technology for superior media quality at a lower cost.
Resources
IBM Storage tape TCO calculator
How much could you be saving? Answer the questions in the tape calculator to get a personalized estimate of your total cost of ownership.
VU University Medical Center Amsterdam
Learn how the medical center helped researchers migrate from NAS drives to a centralized storage platform based on IBM Spectrum Storage solutions.
Flash + Tape = FLAPE
Discover how to balance performance and cost, while satisfying your company's retention requirements.
IBM Spectrum Storage
Improve data management and reduce costs with IBM Spectrum software-defined storage, which is fully integrated with IBM Tape Storage.