Tape News

 To Lean More – Contact Sunstar Company, Inc  sales at (310) 330-2900 Oracle Corp Oracle has released the StorageTek T10000D enterprise tape drive with 8.5 TB of native capacity and a data transfer rate of 252 MB/s. It is backward read compatible for the three previous generations of this product. It has 54 percent more […]

Understanding LTFS

LTFS (Linear Tape File System) is a file system specification that allows Linear Tape-Open (LTO) storage technology to be indexed. LTFS partitions LTO-5 or LTO-6 tapes into two segments called partitions. Partition 0 holds directory structures and pointers that let the tape drive quickly seek specific data from the tape; the data itself is stored in Partition 1. Applying a […]

Archive storage options

Archiving is the process of moving data that is no longer actively used to a separate data storage device for long-term retention. Older data that is still important and necessary for future reference, as well as data that must be retained for regulatory compliance are kept, indexed in order to be easily located. Nexsan : The Nexsan Assureon™ […]