SpectraLogic, celebrating more than 30 years of data storage innovation, today announced it is offering the IBM TS1140 Tape Drive with its enterprise class T-Finity tape library.

The addition of TS1140 drives extends Spectra Logic’s enterprise tape library offering, which includes the TS1140 drives for high capacity, high duty cycle environments, as well as high value, cost-effective IBM LTO tape drives for all-purpose, open storage environments. Spectra Logic is currently the only tape library vendor aside from IBM offering the high performance, energy-efficient TS1140 Tape Drive.

The IBM TS1140 Tape Drive provides 4.0 TB native storage capacity (8.0 TB with 2:1 compression) and native data transfer rates of 240 MB/s (480 MB/s compressed). The TS1140 drive can support connectivity to high speed 8 Gb fibre channel environments. Offered exclusively with IBM and Spectra Logic tape libraries, the higher capacity TS1140 Tape Drives give organizations the ability to keep the same physical footprint while keeping up with burgeoning data growth and data center space constraints.