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IBM has unveiled world’s fastest 1 Terabyte (TB) storage tape drive that will be commercially available from September this year.

With 54 per cent improvement in speed over the previous generation of IBM tape drives the new IBM System Storage TS1130 will be able to write on the terabyte cartridges at a speed of 160 megabytes per second. The transfer rate can be increased to 350 megabytes per second with 3:1 compression.

According to Cindy Grossman, vice president of tape and archive for IBM System Storage:

Today we offer the fastest, highest capacity drive in the market. Tape storage is the most green and cost-effective form of data storage available, and the IBM TS1130 Tape Drive will enable clients to address their growing needs for affordable and robust data solutions.

The IBM System Storage TS1130 uses a high technology Giant Magnetoresistive (GMR) head design that leverages IBM’s world-record achievement of developing a more sensitive read-write head for the magnetic tape system — which results in fewer data read errors helping to provide outstanding data integrity and subsystem reliability.

Credit: IBM

It supports Write Once Read Many (WORM) cartridges to help satisfy compliance requirements. It will have a price tag of $39,050 but companies with existing IBM tape drive systems will be able to upgrade for half-price.