From the year 2006 onwards, IBM stopped 3590 Tape Drives. The IBM TotalStorage 3590 Enterprise Tape Drive has been replaced by the IBM System Storage® TS1120 Tape Drive, that let you use 3592 tape media. However many people still use 3590 tape drives for Data Transcription and to read valuable data that might be residing on their old 3590 tape cartridge.
We have access to limited stocks of old tape drives, that are offered with 6 months warrnaty as refurbished. The new tape drives are not manufactured anymore.
| Magstar 3590 Characteristics | ||||
| Model Number | B11 | B1A | E11 | E1A |
| LZ1 compression | Standard | Standard | Standard | Standard |
| Number of tracks¹ | 128 | 128 | 256 | 256 |
| 10-cartridge magazine | Standard | na | Standard | na |
| Cartridge capacity | 10 /30 GB | 10 /30GB | 20 /60 GB | 20/60 GB |
| Extended cartridge capacity | 20 /60GB | 20/60 GB | 40 /120 GB | 40 /120 GB |
| Native drive data rate | 9 MB/sec | 9 MB/sec | 14 MB/sec | 14 MB/sec |
| Maximum sustained data rate with Ultra SCSI | 27 MB/sec | 27 MB/sec | 34 MB/sec | 34 MB/sec |
| Burst data rate with Ultra SCSI | 40 MB/sec | 40 MB/sec | 40 MB/sec | 40 MB/sec |
| Library, rack-mount, or frame mount. | Rack | Library | Rack | Library |
The new 3590 Tape drives are not available. Data Care Dubai, UAE offers you the refurbished 3590-E11 tape drives. Availability of such drives are limited as the new drives are not being manufactured anymore. The 3590-E11 tape drive also has a 10 Cartridge ACF, so it severs as a mini Library.
IBM 3590-E1A tape drives are capable of writing in 256 track format, giving you more capacity per 3590 cartridge. These tape drives are used as standalone tape drive. All our Tape drives come with a 6 months warranty.
IBM 3590-B1A tape drives Write in 128 track format. Both 3590 and 3590e media is compatible with these tape drives. If the standalone tape drives doesn't fit your requirement, you can always buy the B11 mini library with 10 cartrdiges ACF.
IBM 3590-B11 tape drives write in 128 track format on both 3590 and 3590e tape media. A standard 10 Cartrdige ACF is preinsallted. This can be used as a mini Autoloader.
We also Deal with 3480 and 3490 Refurbished Tape drives. Remember, these tape drives are end of life and are not manufactured by IBM and Fujitsu anymore.
If you are looking to upgrade your system , you should consider IBM TS1120 Storage System that utilizes the IBM 3592 tape cartridge.
In 3590 Format, there are only 2 formats that yield different capacities in different drives ; 3590 Regular capacity and 3590e Extended length.
Imation 3590 J Tape Media
Imation 3590e K Tape media
Imation 3590/3590e Cleaning Media
IBM 3590 J Tape Media
IBM 3590e K Tape Media
IBM 3590/3590e Cleaning Media