/ 01.14.2013 03:29PM
XenData Provides LTO-6 Support for Archive Appliances, Servers
Drives offer increased capacity, faster transfer rates
WALNUT
CREEK, CALIF.– XenData now offers support for LTO-6, as well as more storage capacity per tape cartridge
and faster transfer speeds.
The XenData
portfolio of linear tape open archive appliances and servers, the SX-10 and
SX-500 Series, now work with LTO-6 drives and tape libraries from manufacturers
including HP, IBM, Oracle, Qualstar, Quantum, Spectra Logic and Tandberg Data.
The SX-10 and
SX-500 manage both disk and LTO storage, providing a network attached storage
architecture; presenting video assets within a standard file/folder structure
accessible over a network. They offer compatibility with most media asset
management applications and video editing systems and other media and
entertainment industry applications.
Cartridge
native capacity increases from 1.5 TB to 2.5 TB, with a single LTO-6 cartridge
now able to hold over 100 hours of high definition recorded at 50 Mb/s or over
50 hours at 100 Mb/s, and transfer rates increase from 140 MBytes/s to 160
MBytes/s with the LTO-6.
LTO-6 drives
are read/write compatible with LTO-5 cartridges and read-only compatible with
LTO-4 cartridges.
The
availability of LTO-6 provides reliable storage with a 30-year cartridge
lifetime, which scales to multiple petabytes.
“XenData’s
support for this latest LTO generation means that archive system cost per
terabyte is further reduced,” said Mark Broadbent, XenData co-founder and chief
technology officer.