The document discusses IBM's TS1150 tape drive technology. Some key points:
- The TS1150 has a native capacity of 10TB per tape and can transfer data at 360MB/s.
- It has improvements over previous generations like faster load times, higher performance on reformatted older tapes, and lower power consumption.
- Tape technology offers significantly higher reliability than disk, with estimated error rates every 5 billion years for tape vs over 1,500 bad sectors per disk per year.
- Spectra Logic offers the T380, T950, and TFinity tape libraries that support the TS1150 drive, providing up to 38PB of native storage capacity.
3. • Over 3 Decades of Technology Innovation
– Privately held corporation founded in 1979
– Debt free since inception
– 100% employee owned
• Storage Industry Leadership
– Founding member: Active Archive Alliance
– Founding member: Tape Council
– Standard member: SNIA
– Standard member: Object Storage Alliance
• Worldwide Presence
– HQ’s located in Boulder, CO – Bracknell, UK – Melbourne, AUS
– Over 450 employees in 11 countries
– Over 20,000 libraries installed in over 50 countries
Partnering with Spectra
4. Characteristic TS1140 (Gen 4)
Previous
TS1150 (Gen 5)
Current
TS1160 (Gen 6)
TBD
Native Capacity 4 TB 10 TB 2x Gen 5
(Projected)
Native Data Rate
(MB/S)
250 360 2x Gen 5
(Projected)
Partitioning / LTFS
Support
Yes Yes Yes
Encryption Yes Yes Yes
• Industry leading roadmap
Always superior to LTO
Exceeding T10000 D at TS1150
Statement of direction only. Subject to change by IBM without notice.
TS11x0 Technology Roadmap
5. TS1150 Technology
Capacity 10.0 TB native and 25 TB compressed (2.5:1)
Data Transfer Rate 360 MB/s native
Main Data Buffer 2 GB
Load/Ready 11 secs. (TS1150) versus 16 secs. (TS1140)
Search Speed 30% improvement over TS1140
Speed Matching 14 speeds (70-360MB/sec)
Operating Power 10% lower than TS1140 operating power
dissipation
Backwards Compatibility Read/write 1 generation (3592 JC)
Reformat 3592 JC Media 75% more capacity, 20% greater performance
TS1150 Technology Enhancements
6. What Do the Numbers Mean?
Move 100 terabytes of data within 8 hour window:
11 tape drives and 25 cartridges
needed
Note: This is based on native performance.
TS1140 Technology
Only 8 drives and 10 cartridges needed
= Drives
= Cartridges
TS1150 Technology
7. TS1150 Capacity TS1150 Performance
Tape Reformat TS1140 reformatted: 7 TB native TS1140 reformatted: 300 MB/s native
TS1150 Technology: reformat legacy media to extend your storage
• Up to 75% more capacity on TS1140 (3592 JC) media
• Up to 20% greater performance when using TS1140 (3592 JC) media
TS1150 Technology - Reformatting
250
300
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250
260
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310
TS1140 TS1140 Reformatted
MB/sec
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7
0
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TS1140 TS1140 Reformatted
TB
8. Feature TS1150 Technology Oracle T10000 D LTO-6
Capacity (Native) 10.0 TB 8.0 TB 2.5 TB
Transfer Rate (Native) 360 MB/s 252 MB/s 160 MB/s
R/W Compatibility R/W TS1140
Reformatted TS1140
R/W T10000 C
R only T10000 A, B, C
R/W LTO-5
R only LTO-4
Interfaces 8 Gb FC
FICON*
16 Gb FC
FICON
10 Gb FCoE
8 Gb FC
4 Gb FC
Library Compatibility IBM TS3500
IBM TS4500
Spectra T-Finity*
Spectra T950*
Spectra T380*
SL8500
SL3000
Spectra
IBM
Oracle
Quantum
Libraries
Media Sources Two One Multiple
Load / Unload Cycles 300,000 >150,000 100,000
* FICON not supported by Spectra.
TS1150 Technology vs Competing Drive Types
9. Reliability of Storage Medium
Medium Hard Error Rate
Tape
TS1150 1 x 10E20 bits
Disk
FC / SAS 1 x 10E16 bits
SATA (Enterprise) 1 x 10E15 bits
SATA (Desktop) 1 x 10E14 bits
Source: Published industry statistics
10. • What do those statistics look like on a graph?
Reliability- Orders of Magnitude Greater
11. On average… for a million tape drives and disk drives
running continuously…
You get one undetectable tape bit error once every five
times the age of the earth…
In comparison to 1,577 undetected bad sectors
EVERY YEAR with disk
With Tape’s Undetected Error Rate of 1.6 x 1033
12. How can we use a
bigger, faster, reliable tape?
13. Storage
Public
Cloud
Let’s talk “cloud”
Hosted
Service
- Simple
- Flexible
- Low Capex/High Opex
- High Bandwidth Reqts
- Variable costs
- Complex
- Fixed- Data Size (Bandwidth)
- Touches
- Ownership/Security
- Compliance
- Genetic Diversity
Local
Cloud
- Mid Capex/Low Opex
- Simple
- Flexible
14. Storage
Expertise
Tape in the Cloud…
Metadata Cache
Storage
Control
Objects
Deep Storage Tape
Public
Cloud
Metadata DISK
Storage
Control
Open API
Traditional Tape…
Local or
Remote
17. The future’s so bright…
• Fujifilm and IBM Announcement April, 2015
• Approximately 88 times more capacity than LTO-6
• Approximately 22 times more capacity than TS1150
– Expected availability 2025
220 Terabytes uncompressed on a single cartridge:
The highest capacity storage media ever achieved,
including HDD, BD or solid memory NAND flash
technologies
18. • Reliability
• Enterprise class reliability
• Designed for 24 x 7 use
• Data integrity on tape
• Performance and Capacity
• Faster drive
• Higher capacity
• Roadmap
• Significant capacity gains
• Advanced technology enables higher
performance
• Solid investment protection
Spectra TS1150 Technology Tape Drive
The competitive advantage
19. The only rackmount
library with TS Tape
Technology…
All in 28U!
TS1150 Technology Drive and Spectra Libraries
T380 TS1150
Slots
TB
native
# of
Drives
TB/Hr
Native
45 - 261 2610 12 15.5
T950 TS1150
1 to 8 Frames
Slots
PB
native
# of
Drives
TB/Hr
Native
90 - 7668 76 120 155
TFinity TS1150
3 to 40 Frames
Slots
PB
native
# of
Drives
TB/Hr
Native
90-38,115 381 120 155
