- Provides information security with support for encryption and key management
- Optimises information retention with support for existing IBM tape automation
- Supports Write Once Read Many (WORM) cartridges to help satisfy compliance requirements
- Offers high performance and high capacity for storage consolidation.

Overview
Marketplace and customer demands require applications that rely on high capacity, fast access to data or long-term data retention. The IBM System Storage TS1130 Tape Drive (TS1130 tape drive) features storage capability to help you establish easy access to data, better security, long-term retention and data governance and regulatory compliance. The TS1130 tape drive offers high-performance flexible data storage with support for data encryption. The TS1130 tape drive can help you protect your investments in tape automation by offering compatibility with existing automation. To further protect your investment, an upgrade model is available for your existing IBM System Storage TS1120 Tape Drives. And to support a heterogeneous server environment, the TS1130 offers multiplatform support.
The TS1130 Tape Drive supports IBM System Storage TS3400 and TS3500 Tape Libraries, IBM TotalStorage 3494 Tape Libraries, IBM Virtualisation Engine TS7700, IBM racks that enable stand-alone installation and IBM 3952 Tape Frames Model C20 (3952C20 frame) attached to a Sun 9310 library.
Access information at the speed of business
Leverage performance to handle the requirements of your business needs. The TS1130 tape drive supports a native data transfer rate of up to 160 MegaBytes per second (Mbps) to deliver information at the speed your business demands. Help reduce backup and recovery times or require fewer resources to support the environment with the TS1130 tape drive transferring data up to:
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- High performance with data transfer rate up to 350Mbps with 3:1 compression
- Flexible media, including short and long length cartridges and re-writable and WORM formats
- Small form factor (SFF) and high capacity
- Supports encryption and key management
- Compatibility with existing IBM tape automation installations
- IBM Power Systems, System i5, System p5, System z and System x support
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- Linear Serpentine recording
- 1TB capacity using JB/JX media
- 640GB capacity using JA/JW media
- 128GB capacity using JJ/JR media
- 400Mbps burst data rate
- Compact 3.8in x 7.8in x 18.4in dimensions
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* Assumes 3:1 compression
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