• The IBM 3573L3S is designed to support the new IBM LTO™ Ultrium™ 4 and the LTO Ultrium 3 Tape Drives for increased capacity and performance including 4 Gbps fibre channel, Low Voltage Differential (LVD) SCSI and 3 Gbps SAS attachment
• The IBM 3573L3S  is designed to support cost-effective backup, save and restore and archival storage in sequential or random access mode with a standard bar-code reader
• Designed to offer outstanding capacity, performance and reliability for midrange and network tape-storage environments in a 2U form factor with the 24 data-cartridge slots and a dedicated mail slot
• Remote library management through a standard Web interface supports flexibility and greater administrative control of storage operations
• Ultrium 4 native data capacities up to 19.2 TB (38.4 with 2:1 compression) with 24 data cartridge slots and the use of LTO Ultrium 4 Tape Drive with a native data rate of 120 MBps
• Ultrium 3 native physical data capacities up to 9.6 TB (up to 19.2 TB using 2:1 compression) with the 24 data-cartridge slots, and the use of LTO Ultrium 3 Tape Drive with a native data rate of up to 80 MBps

The IBM 3573L3S Tape Drive has the capability of writing twice as much data, up to 400 GB native physical capacity (800 GB with 2:1 compression). The TS3100 Tape Library capacity is 22 tape cartridges, providing a media physical capacity of up to 8.8 TB (17.6 TB with 2:1 compression) data storage per unit.  The TS3100 Tape Library Express Models L3S and F3S is an external standalone or rack-mountable unit and contains a LTO Ultrium tape drive that is designed for the heavy demands of backup tape storage. The Tape Library Express capacity is 22 tape cartridges, providing a media physical capacity of up to 8.8 TB (17.6 TB with 2:1 compression) data storage per unit. It is supported for LVD Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI) or Fibre channel attachment IBM System p and p5, IBM System i and i5, IBM System z and z9 products, IBM server xSeries,

IBM 3573L3S Specifications

Physical specifications

3573 Models L3S and F3S

• Temperature: 10° to 35°C, 50° to 95°F
• Relative humidity: 10% RH to 90% RH (non-condensing)
• Wet bulb: 26°C (79.0°F) maximum
• Voltage: 100-240 V ac, 50-60 Hz auto-ranging
• Electrical power: 1.3 amps at 100 V ac, 0.7 amps at 240 V ac 0.1 KVA
• Maximum acoustical noise sound power levels LwAd in bels: 6.6/6.8
• Heat output: 100 watts (86 KCal/Hr.)

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