IBM 5638 LTO 5 SAS Tape Drive Ultrium 5

IBM 5638 LTO5 SAS Tape Drive Ultrium 5 42C2006 42C4007

The IBM 5638 Ultrium 5 LTO5 Tape Drive is serial attached SCSI (SAS) tape drive, in a 5.25-inch half-high form factor and is installed in IBM Power Systems for backup and recovery. The IBM 5638 Ultrium 5 LTO5 SAS Tape Drive has 42C2006 42C4007 part numbers and supports IBM i AS400, AIX adn Linux Server OS. TThe IBM 5638 Ultrium 5 LTO5 Tape Drive will read older LTO3 Ultrium 3 tape media, and is read/write compatible with both LTO4 Ultrium 4 and LTO5 Ultrium 5 tape media. The IBM 5638 Ultrium 5 LTO5 Tape Drive will not read or write on Ultrium 2 and Ultrium 1 cartridges. The IBM 5638 has a 140 MB/sec Data Transfer Rate with LTO5 media and does speed matching down to 40 MB/sec.

Each LTO5 Ultrium 5 tape cartridge can store up to 1.5 TB of uncompressed data, or up to 3.0 TB of compressed data. The actual capacity varies depending on the application, the type of data, and the tape cartridge. When data compression is activated, 1.5 TB is typical and 3.0 TB is possible. The default setting of data compression is controlled by the host system. The user and the application software can control the activation or deactivation of the data compression setting. The drive can optimally achieve a 2:1 compression ratio.

IBM 5638 Features and Specifications
Single port 6 Gbps Serial Attached Small Computer Systems Interface (SAS)
FRU part number 42C2006 and 42C4007
Native storage capacity of 1500 GB per cartridge (3000 GB at 2:1 compression)
Custom card identification number (CCIN) number is 63A0
Data transfer rate: 140 MB per second native mode, 240 MB per second at 2:1 compression
Burst data transfer rate of 600 MB per second
256 MB read-and-write cache
Support for encryption on Ultrium 5 tape cartridges
Single Character Display (SCD) operator panel
Ready and Fault status lights
Maintenance Mode functions
Downward read and write compatibility with earlier LTO-type data cartridges.
Bootable device, depending on the host system configuration
Operation: Streaming
Half height form factor
Can be used as an bootable device, depending on the host system configuration.

IBM 5638 Ultrium 5 LTO 5 data cartridges
46C2009 Test Cartridge Gen 5
35L2086 Universal LTO Cleaning Cartridge
46X1290 LTO-5 Data Cartridge( 1.5 TB / 3.0 TB), Write/Read
46C2009 LTO-5 Test Cartridge( 1.5 TB / 3.0 TB), Write/Read (not customer orderable)
46X1292 LTO-5 Worm Data Cartridge, Write 1x/Read many

OS Requirements:
IBM i AS400 V6R1 or higher
IBM Power AIX Version 5.3 or higher
SUSE Linux Server
IBM Red Hat Linux