Over the past 2 to 3 decades, the world has transformed into a more intelligent, interconnected and instrumented environment. The volume of data is doubling after every 1 to 2 years. Therefore the organizations strive to adopt new backup storage systems that allow them to record, archive and extract the recorded data more cost effectively, while driving down their I.T budgets.

LTO (linear tape open) is a well renowned, reliable, cost effective and intelligent tape storage format. LTO has been the top choice of the users since its introduction to the market, which was in the late 1990s. Four generations of LTO tape technology have been introduced so far. The latest generation of LTO that has hit the data storage market is the 5th generation LTO-5 format.

IBM has a vast experience and technical knowledge of manufacturing data storage products. IBM has engineered TS2350 LTO-5 tape drive which belongs to the IBM's Express System Storage drive family. Cost efficient data storage performance, space reduction, and lower power consumption of IBM TS2350 LTO-5 tape drive helps the enterprises to reduce their I.T costs. IBM TS2350 LTO-5 drive has been developed to address the archiving requirements of most demanding environments. IBM LTO 5 tape cartridge's manufacturer part number is 46X1290. With LTO-5 tape, you can store double the amount of data as of previous LTO-4 ultrium tapes. IBM 46X1290, LTO5 cartridge provides greater recording capacity of 1.5TB / 3TB.

Unique media partitioning feature has been incorporated in the high speed IBM LTO5 drive, which allows the data administrators to perform media partitioning and create 2 partitions on LTO5 data tapes. Media partitioning helps the LTO-5 TS2350 express drive to efficiently access the smaller data sections on the tape medium. Exclusive long-term file system of IBM LTO5 tape drive allows the IT managers to interchange the information between different platforms. Like all the other LTO drives of previous generations, IBM LTO-5 TS2350 drive also features the cost saving backward compatibility. Data can be recorded and read from the LTO-4 tape by the IBM TS2350 drive. LTO5 TS2350 drive can only read the LTO3 media. I have mentioned below few of the major OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) of LTO-5 media tapes:

Maxell 229323, LTO5 tape
Imation 27672, LTO-5 cartridge
Fuji 16008030, LTO 5 media tape
Sony LTX1500G, LTO5 ultrium tape
HP C7975A, LTO-5 data tape
Quantum MR-L5MQN-01, LTO 5 ultrium backup tape

TS2350 IBM drive is best suited for network servers, departmental backups, busy data centers and remote offices. IBM LTO5 TS2350 drive has inherited the WORM and data encryption technologies of the LTO4 tape media. Advanced features enable the IBM LTO-5 TS2350 drive to efficiently and economically handle the increasing storage demands. The drive supports the leading ISV application and operating systems. IBM LTO-5 tape technology helps to lower the I.T budgets and enables you to record more amounts of data on fewer cartridges. This will save you more amount of space and ultimately will require lesser tape handling and human interventions. IBM LTO-5 TS2350 drive is robustly engineered to secure your IT investments and provide long term protection.