IBM 3580 Model L43 LTO-4 Ultrium Tape Drive
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.