IBM TS2280 tape drive
The IBM TS2280 tape drive (3580 model H8S) is an external stand-alone or rack-mountable unit that is designed to offer high capacity and performance for the midrange system environment. The TS2280 tape drive incorporates the IBM Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium 8 Half-High tape drive and uses a dual-port 6 Gbps serial-attached SCSI (SAS) host interface. The tape drive supports a native sustained data rate performance of up to 300 MBps, which increases to 600 MBps under compression.
The IBM LTO Ultrium 8 tape drive uses the ...

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