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All the Benefits of LTO Now Available on Desktop

Many media productions, post-production houses and creatives rely on what used to be data center technology and was previously limited to big corporations. MagStor’s LTO drives offer Thunderbolt, SAS, and FC interface to connect any Mac or PC. Combined with Archiware’s P5 Archive, this results in a powerful media archive solution.

MagStor is the world’s first patented Thunderbolt 3 certified LTO tape drive solution. MagStor’s drives come in different configurations, ranging from single drive and dual drive, to drives with SSD RAID and LTO combined. The drives plug into a regular power cable, so that no external brick is required. Depending on capacity requirements LTO-7, 8 and 9 is offered. LTO offers the best durability and price per TB of all storage media.

Archiware P5 Archive is a long-term storage solution that moves data to disk, tape and the cloud. P5 Archive makes it easy to build a powerful Archive as single source of truth that offers a flexible catalog for browsing and searching. The Archive saves space on costly production storage and preserves media for re-use, referencing and returning customers. As users requirements grow and change, P5’s modular design allows for optimal scaling to fit your specific needs.

Combined with P5 Archive, the solution with MagStor is an easy-to-use, robust and scalable solution. P5 supports all MagStor LTO drives, making it the ideal combination for saving your data. When using MagStor’s NanoPure Media™, P5 Software provides media health reporting and can greatly simplify support issues with hardware or media.

Entry Level Archive Solution

Example: 1 Tape = 1 Production. Archive to LTO Tape. Manual or automatic drop folder Archiving. Unlimited tapes can be written using the P5 Archive license. Can be combined with P5 Synchronize and P5 Backup.

Enhanced LTFS Support with P5 Archive

Archiware developed its own LTFS driver to provide an optimized, efficient and robust LTFS service.

LTO Facts

LTO-10

LTO-9

Speed

up to 400 MB/s uncompressed

up to 400 MB/s uncompressed

Capacity

40,0 TB media available

18,0 TB uncompressed

Security

Encryption, Servo Tracks, WORM, Verify, Error Correction, Auto Speed

Encryption, Servo Tracks, WORM, Verify, Error Correction, Auto Speed

Lifespan

Certified for 30 Years

Certified for 30 Years

Off-site storage

Simple, reliable, cost-effective

Simple, reliable, cost-effective

What is LTO-9?

LTO tape was created to combine the strong features of some predecessor tape technologies, avoid the weaknesses and create a standard with multiple vendors.

The LTO Roadmap

New LTO generations are introduced regularly with higher capacity and transfer rates, along with new features to further protect your data and content. LTO specifications for backward compatibility up to generation seven of the technology is to write back one generation and read back two generations. The LTO Program regularly publishes and updates an LTO roadmap with information on new generations.

P5 Desktop LTO Edition

Archiware P5 is available in a special P5 Desktop LTO Edition for use with up to two LTO drives. Automatic Backups and long-term Archive on LTO, store production data and protect for the long-term. Now both are available in this special license bundle.

Profit from proven longevity and affordability of LTO media. Extremely easy archiving and backup with P5.

S3 Object Archive

The S3 Object Archive allows external products to access the power and flexibility of archiving to LTO and LTFS storage with the P5 Archive module. Compatible with Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible and Deep Archive storage classes, objects received via the S3 interface are archived with full management of tapes, drives, and libraries. Third-party software, including MAM, DAM, and PAM systems, can now effortlessly archive data, also to LTO tape, using their own S3 client interface.

P5 Archive DLM

P5 Archive DLM enables intelligent, policy driven data management throughout the archive lifecycle. With automated data lifecycle management, volume verification, project based storage monitoring, and flexible retention rules, it ensures that archived data remains organized, compliant, and easy to manage over time.

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