IBM 3580 Model L43 LTO-4 Ultrium Tape Drive

• LTO4
• SCSI

IBM 3580 Model L43 external standalone tape units are designed to offer high capacity and performance for the midrange open systems environment. The L43 incorporates the new Linear Tape-Open (LTO) IBM System Storage Ultrium 4 Full-High Tape Drive, which are designed to provide maximum tape drive throughput native data rate performance of up to 120 MB/sec compared to the IBM LTO generation 3 Tape Drive (Ultrium 3) at up to 80 MB/sec native data transfer rate. In addition, with the use of the new IBM LTO Ultrium 800 GB Data Cartridge, the Ultrium 4 Tape Drive provides double the tape cartridge capacity up to 800 GB native physical capacity (1,600 GB with 2:1 compression) compared to previous Ultrium 3 Tape Drives. IBM Ultrium 4 Tape Drives can read and write LTO Ultrium 3 data cartridges and can read LTO Ultrium 2 data cartridges. In addition, the Ultrium 4 serial-attached SCSI (SAS) Tape Drive is encryption capable and designed to support Application Managed Encryption.