IBM 3592-E05 TS1120 Tape Drive

The IBM 3592 System Storage TS1120 Tape Drive Model E05 (3592 Model E05) is supported for integration in the IBM System Storage Tape Libraries, TS7700 Virtualization Engine, 3494 VTS, and tape controllers. The TS1120 Tape Drive is designed to provide higher levels of performance, reliability, security, and cartridge capacity than the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Drive 3592 Model J1A. The TS1120 E05 Tape Drive can help address the needs of tape customers across a broad range of computing environments.

The IBM System Storage TS1120 Tape Drive (Machine Type 3592, Model E05) has been enhanced to provide the customer the option of using drive based data encryption. This encryption capability is now standard on all new TS1120 Tape Drives and is a chargeable upgrade feature for existing installed TS1120 Tape Drives. The encryption capability includes drive hardware as well as microcode additions and changes. Also being introduced is a new, separate IBM Encryption Key Manager component for the Java Platform(TM) (Encryption Key Manager) program that supports the generation and communication of encryption keys for the tape drives across the enterprise.

The TS1120 drive's encryption capability and its subsystem integration support help provide customers with a flexible tape data encryption solution that supports encryption and key management across a variety of environments, supporting a single point of control for all encryption keys, and most importantly can help customers protect tape data in a cost effective way.

The TS1120 E05 Tape Drive is designed to support either the IBM Tape Cartridge 3592 Extended providing up to 700 GB rewritable (JB) or WORM (JX) native physical capacity, or the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Cartridge 3592 providing up to 500 GB rewritable (JA) or WORM (JW) or 100 GB rewritable (JJ) or WORM (JR) native physical capacity.

Maximum Capacity is 2.1TB when using JB Format 3592 Media.