IBM System Storage 7216 Multi-Media Enclosure for Power6

System Storage 7216 Multi-Media Enclosure from IBM Corp.www.ibm.com offers both SAS and USB electronic interface options to accommodate up to two tape drives, two RDX Removable HDD Docking Stations, or four DVD-RAM drives.

The 7216 delivers external tape, removable disk drive, and DVD-RAM drive options that allow data transfer with similar archival storage and retrieval technologies already installed in existing IT facilities.

Optional drive technologies
available in the 7216 offering are:

DAT320 160 GB SAS Tape Drive: Read-write compatible with DAT320 and DAT160 data cartridges
DAT320 160 GB USB Tape Drive: Read-write compatible with DAT320 and DAT160 data cartridges
Half-high LTO Ultrium 5 1.5 TB SAS Tape Drive: Read-write compatible with LTO Ultrium 5 and LTO Ultrium 4 data cartridges, and read-only compatible with Ultrium 3 data cartridges
DVD-RAM: 9.4 GB SAS Slim Optical Drive supports most standard DVD disks
RDX Removable USB Disk Drives: RDX Docking Station is compatible with most RDX disk drive cartridge and supports RDX Removable drives with 160 GB and 500 GB capacity options

Removable RDX Drives are in a rugged cartridge to be used in the RDX Removable Disk Docking Station. The uncompressed capacity in the 160 GB Removable RDX Drive is up to 160 GB, and the capacity would be up to 320 GB with typical 2:1 compression. The uncompressed capacity in the 500 GB Removable RDX Drive is up to 500 GB, and the capacity would be up to 1000 GB with typical 2:1 compression. Compression/decompression is provided by the operating system, not the drive itself.

DAT320 160 GB SAS and USB tape drives are read-write compatible with DAT320 and DAT160 media. Media used in the 7216 DAT320 tape drive feature is compatible with DAT320 tape drives installed in the IBM 7214 Tape and DVD Storage Enclosure, and DAT320 tape drives installed internally in an IBM POWER Server.

LTO Ultrium 5 1.5 TB tape drives are read-write compatible with media used in LTO Ultrium 5 and LTO Ultrium 4 tape drives and read-only compatible with media used in LTO Ultrium 3 tape drives.

Media used in the Half-high LTO Ultrium 5 Tape Drive feature in the 7216 Multi-Media Enclosure is compatible with media used in the following IBM machine types:

IBM 3580 Models H5S/S5X
IBM 3580 Models S53/S5E
IBM 3573 Models L2U/2UL and L4U/4UL
IBM 3576 Models L5B & E9U
IBM 3584 Model L53
IBM 3588 Model F5A

The 7216 offers Customer Replaceable Unit (CRU) maintenance service to help make installation or replacement of new drives efficient. Other 7216 Model 1U2 components are also designed for CRU maintenance.

Planned availability date:

November 19, 2010