If you can afford to buy an optical drive now you won't have any problems buying an LTO9 drive when it comes out.
500 GB a week then multiplying by 52 gives 26TB so you can probably fit almost a years data on just one tape when LTO9 comes out. LTO if it keeps to its 2-2.5 year release for new generations should see LTO9 come out early next year and that will have 24TB cartridges and since you said that you will be generating approx.
LTO8 cartridges are in short supply due to the patent dispute but 6TB LTO7 are $70 and readily available and so are 9TB LTO7 type M ones for the same price. But lets compare both and a bare drive for LTO8 is $3.3K (all prices in USD) whereas optical is reputedly like $6K-$8K. He can be reached at more information, visit don't know why your so set on optical media as its good but so is LTO but its a lot more expensive from what I've seen on a couple of Youtube clips about it. He has also served as the chief engineer of WMSC radio since January 2013. It’s great that we could buy a smaller base unit with the understanding that in the future, we can just add in more bays and more drives to expand and grow the system, which has less impact on our bottom line.īetween the purchase of the system, the cartridge and the backwards compatibility, we are confident it will grow along with our operations for years to come.Īdam Goldberg is Montclair State University’s chief engineer for the Broadcast and Media Operations for the College of the Arts. With ODA, I know that everything that is important to the university is secure and easily discoverable.Īnother benefit of ODA is its scalability. Previously, we were digging through hard drives or losing track of tapes and information due to personnel changes. This allows me to easily tell the system to grab a specific cartridge and export its contents from that folder back to our hard drive system, so that I can locate it and do what I want with the file. With ODA and Storage DNA, I can simply search the metadata tags for the content I’m looking for and it will locate what cartridge it’s on. I don’t have to worry about a hard drive sitting on the shelf for years and then plugging it in and hoping it works.Īdditionally, hard drives are often not labeled and in order to understand what is on the drive you have to plug it in and check. Using Sony’s solution is easier, faster and gives us peace of mind. Prior to adopting ODA, we were primarily using external hard drives. That translates to long-term savings for us. I don’t have to worry about making sure that I am transferring my old media onto new media to stay current, and the readers and writers are also compatible. If we opt to buy a next-generation system, I can take my Generation Two cartridges and the system will read off of them. This translates to less wear and tear and a longer shelf life.Īnother reason why we chose the ODA system is because of its backwards compatibility. Other archival options use a physical tape that touches drums and rollers and heads. We chose Sony’s ODA for our long-term archival storage because it is a touchless media, meaning the only thing that touches the disc during the Write/Read process is a laser light. We use Sony’s ODS元0M PetaSite, a scalable 30-slot master library unit to archive, safeguard and easily recall the university’s most visible live events, including graduation ceremonies, presidential addresses, theater performances and concerts.
SONY OPTICAL DISK ARCHIVE ARCHIVE
One way we stay ahead of the curve and preserve our most important media is through our adoption of Sony’s Optical Disc Archive (ODA), which is critical to our long-term archival storage.
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