3590 Enterprise Tape System 

The IBM TotalStorage™ Enterprise Tape System 3590 provides the highest levels of performance and reliability of any IBM tape subsystem and exemplifies IBM's continued leadership in storage products. Since its first shipment in September 1995, it has met with wide marketplace acceptance. Over 90,000 3590 Tape Drives are installed in both IBM and non-IBM systems across industry sectors.

Product highlights

• Enhanced tape sharing with cross enterprise attachment

• Flexible implementation with support for multiple attachments

• High Performance for improved backup window management and increased productivity

• High Capacity for reduced space consumption and reduced tape cartridge handling

• Support for improved data integrity and reliability for mission critical data

• 3590 tape drive technology includes advanced Error Correction Code (ECC), servo track mechanisms, resident diagnostics, redundant parity checking, and read after write verification

• Attaches to IBM eServer iSeries (AS/400), pSeries (RS/6000), xSeries, zSeries (S/390), Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Intel-based systems running Linux, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and more

• 3590 is supported for native attachment to Ultra SCSI, Fibre Channel, ESCON and FICON servers

• Features an uncompressed drive data rate of up to 14MB/second

• Uses 3590 extended length tape cartridge for up to 180GB of 3:1 compressed data per cartridge

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