XenData Supporting LTO-6

XenData, Inc. announces its support for LTO-6, offering more storage capacity per tape cartridge and faster transfer speeds.

 
The XenData portfolio of LTO archive appliances and servers, the SX-10 and SX-500 Series, now work with LTO-6 drives and tape libraries from a range of 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 NAS architecture, and presenting video assets within a standard file/folder structure accessible over a network. They offer compatibility with a range of applications used in the media and entertainment industry including most media asset management applications and video editing systems.
 
LTO-6 provides the following benefits:

• Capacity: Cartridge native capacity increases from 1.5TB to 2.5TB, with a single LTO-6 cartridge now able to hold over 100 hours of HD recorded at 50Mb/s or over 50 hours at 100Mb/s.
• Transfer: Transfer rates increase from 140MBytes/s to 160MBytes/s.
• Compatibility: LTO-6 drives are read/write compatible with LTO-5 cartridges and read-only compatible with LTO-4 cartridges.

The availability of LTO-6 reinforces LTO cartridges as a storage medium for high capacity long-term video archives. It 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, co-founder and CTO of XenData. "By leveraging the many benefits of LTO-6, such as higher capacity, long life, reliability, speed and ease of use, we continue to provide our customers with state-of-the-art video archive solutions at affordable prices."
 
XenData LTO-6 archive solutions are available and start at $9,995 for a system that includes an SX-10 Archive Appliance and LTO-6 tape drive.

LTO-6 archive solutions will be demonstrated on the XenData booths at BVE 2013 in London, UK on February 26-28, and at NAB 2013 in Las Vegas, NE on April 8-11