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General information
IBM offers price reductions on one of it's most popular tape backup products, the IBM 12/24GB DDS/3 4mm Internal SCSI Tape Drive. Considered to be among the preferred backup technologies in the NT space, this drive is now an even better value to help customers protect valuable data and keep their businesses up and running.
Warranty
3 year limited customer carry-in exchange
This product replaces
None
This product was replaced by
Not applicable
Packaging
You will receive one box containing the following items:
- Base drive
- Multilingual manual
- Trial backup software CDs
- Data cartridge
- Cleaning cartridge
- Four M3 x 0.5 x 6-mm screws
- Bezel kit
- SCSI wide to narrow converter
Part numbers applicable to: World Wide
- Marketing part number: 09N4041
- Replacement part number (FRU): 09N0982
Asia Pacific, Canada, Latin America, United States
- Announce date: 20 Jun 2000
- Planned availability date: 20 Jun 2000
- Withdrawal date: 29 Oct 2002
- Announce date: 20 Jun 2000
- Planned availability date: 21 Jun 2000
- Withdrawal date: 29 Oct 2002
Performance specifications as known at time of announcement
1.1 MB/sec native and up to 2.2 MB/sec with data compression (actual speeds will vary based on many factors, and may often be slower than the maximum possible).
Physical, environmental, and compatibility specifications as known at time of announcement
Weight
- * lbs
- * kg
- 1.6 inches
- 41.3 mm
- 3.5 inches
- 101.6 mm
- 6.5 inches
- 146 mm
- Between 5 degrees Celsius and 45 degrees Celsius
- Between 41 degrees Fahrenheit and 113 degrees Fahrenheit
- Operating: between 20% and 80% (non-condensing)
- UL
- CSA
- TUV
- CE
- FCC
- VDE
Hardware requirements for IBM systems
The 12/24GB DDS/3 4mm Internal Tape Drive is supported on all models of the following IBM platforms:
- Netfinity 3000 - 8476
- Netfinity 3500 - 8644
- Netfinity 3500 M20 - 8657
- Netfinity 5000 - 8659
- IntelliStation Z Pro - 6865, 6866, 6899
- IntelliStation M Pro - 6868, 6889, 6898
- IBM
xSeries 200 - 8478 - IBM
xSeries 330 (8654)
The IBM 12/24GB DDS/3 4-mm Internal Tape Drive ships with trial versions of popular backup/restore application CDs, supporting Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, NetWare 4.x and NetWare 5.x. Customers can install this trial software on a 'try and buy' basis, or use their own software. All supported hardware and software configurations can be viewed at the IBM ServerProven Web site at http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/compat/us/ .
The IBM 12/24GB tape drive is compatible with the onboard 2940 Ultra Wide SCSI host adapter in all of the supported PC servers.
Limitations
Some configurations may not be supported.
Supported software
Not Applicable
Other
Installation time is approximately 30 minutes.
Document notes
- The symbol * means that the information is currently unavailable for this product.
- FRU stands for Field Replacement Unit. It is the part number used for ordering service/replacement parts.
- Effective Withdrawal means that on the given date IBM will have withdrawn the products from marketing. After that date, the product can not be obtained directly from IBM
Document Location
Worldwide
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24 January 2019
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