IBM TS2250 Tape Drive Model H5S
Part Number: 6160S5E
TS2250 Model H5S incorporates the IBM LTO Ultrium 5 Half-High SAS Tape Drive. The TS2250 is designed to support the LTO Generation 5 native data rate performance with up to 140 MBps compared to the IBM TS2240 LTO half-high tape drive (Ultrium 4) at up to 120 MBps native data transfer rate. The TS2250 tape drive supports the LTO Generation 5 media specifications with a compressed capacity of up to 3.0 TB with 2 to 1 compression (up to 1.5 TB native capacity) compared to previous LTO 4 compressed capacity of up to 1600 GB with 2 to 1 compression (up to 800 GB native capacity) per tape cartridge.
Key Features
- 6 Gbps SAS attachment support
- A 512 MB internal buffer
- Application managed encryption support for half-high LTO Generation 5 SAS tape drives
- 8 KB cartridge memory with Ultrium 5 media
- Half-high drive form factor
- Two SAS ports per drive to improve availability and Usable