Tape Storage

A lot is happening in AI world and surveillance industry is not left behind  in implementing it in Video Analytic – to find and flag unusual patterns, to reduce the number of false alarms and for beha

Improved Capacity and Transfer rate Capacity of course doubles with every new release of LTO .  LTO-8's  12TB native is double the 6TB native of LTO-7 Media. Apart from capacity the performance has to

We have the LTO-8 type M labels available now from Tri-optics.  LTO-8 Type M is the previously unusued LTO-7 Media that can be reformatted for use in LTO-8 drive. For the drivie automation to recgnize

LTO-8 Drives will start shipping in Q12018. As usual there is a capacity increase in LTO-8 drives ( 12TB Native, double that of LTO-7), but this is not the only differentiating factor for this new dri

HP has officially stopped taking orders on DDS tapes, and some of the DDS market is being captured by RDX due to simplicity and ease of use. Latest RDX tape boasts a capacity of 4Tb on a single tape. 

Quantum has announced the availability of LTO-7 drives. The external Quantum  TC-L72BN-EZ - Half height tablet top SAS drive offers a migration from LTO-6 drives. The LTO-7 drive is read and write com

Tandberg has launched the 3TB RDX tapes in Middle East. RDX technology is seen as a hybrid backup solution, which offers removable hard drives in tape form factor for easy handling and reliability. Ta

When you are  Disposing your old Hard drives, merely deleting or reformatting is not enough to sanitize  the hard drive. Even after formatting, the Confidential information stays on your hard drives/

7the Generation of Ultrium tapes , LTO-7 would soon be launched. Here is all that we know about it Capacity of LTO-7 would be 6TB native, 15TB compressed. Transfer speed of 1.1TB per hour native. Unli

Quantum has started the pre-purchase program for LTO-7 drives which indicates that the drives will very soon be availble for purchase. With a Native capacity of 6.4TB ( 16TB with compression) and over

The linear tape open "road map" has been extended to generation 10. Each 2 years a new generation of LTO is intorduced, with Generation 7 LTO-7 scheduled to release by Last quarter of 2015. While its

Western Digital Announced the Release of Long anticipated 5 and 6 TB hard drives. Now the NAS users have the option of gettting upto 6 TB from a single hard drive , pushing the capacity up by 50% on t

Tandberg Data introduced the world's first 2TB RDX data cartridge , that's 33% more data on a single RDX cartridge compared to earlier available 1.5TB.  RDX Bakcup products are popular in Small and Me

IBM LTO tapes are reputed for their quality and performance. When you buy the LTO tape drive from IBM, mostly some tapes are bundled for quick start. The part number of these bundled tapes differ from

Tri-Optic is known for the best media labels and we are proud to be associated with them, to provide the same great quality of labels to our clients. DataCare has been signed up as a TTG partner that

Imation RDX Media Secure is the world’s first removable RDX with built-in AES-256 data encryption.  It offers all the features of standard RDX media along with added encryption. RDX Media secure is es

LTO Tapes have typically been doubling in capacity right from LTO-1 generation , at least upto now. This changed with LTO-6, where the capacity hasn't exactly doubled.  The reason lies in the technolo

HP has started shipping the LTO-6 tape media, C7976A. With a higher track density, LTO-6 offers 70% higher native capacity compared to LTO-5. With a compression rate of 2.5 ( which is data depend

Tandberg Data announced the largest capacity RDX Tape yet ; 1.5TB . The new 1.5TB cartridge has 50 per cent more capacity over the next highest capacity cartridge. This makes Standard RDX media availa

It's been 2 years since the LTO-5 was introduced and it has been occupying the slot of the top capacity in LTO Ultrium tape hierarchy, however this is set to change soon with LTO-6 tapes.LTO-6 tapes L

Equally important to Regular back up of data is the safe storage of Tape cartridge on which the data is stored. If your tape is exposed to heat, moisture, shock and other elements, they are prone to d

Imation has announced purpose-built backup appliances, with multiple levels of Data Protection.The T5R is the first of it's kind that has an RDX slot built in the NAS tower. This RDX Slot gives the de

When you are storing mission critical data to your LTO tapes, it becomes important to Identify a defective tape before it fails.  You can stop using your old tapes, if you know the overall health and

The Quarter Inch Cartridges (QIC) go by many names - QIC, Magnus, DC, QD, SLR or MLR etc. These legacy tapes have been around for several decades and still continue to be used by some users because th

DataCare LLC Dubai, UAE Spills the beans for you on the DDS Format tapesDigital Data Storage (DDS) is a format for storing and backing up computer data on tape that evolved from the Digital Audio Tape

DataCare LLC, Dubai, UAE spills the beans on LTFS. The information here is gathered from the website of ultrium ( www.ultrium.com)What is LTFS ?In short it’s a file system. Just like FAT or NTFS, Long