XenData Adds LTO-6 Support

Will provide increased capacity and transfer rates for its archival products

By George Winslow -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/15/2013 10:09:44 AM

LTO archive technology provider XenData has announced that its LTO archive appliances and servers, the SX-10 and SX-500 series, will now work with LTO-6.

The move to LTO-6 support will offer more storage capacity per tape cartridge as well as faster transfer speeds.

"XenData's support for this latest LTO generation means that archive system cost per terabyte is further reduced," said Mark Broadbent, cofounder 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."

In terms of the greater capacity, the cartridge increases from 1.5 TB to 2.5 TB and transfer rates will jump from 140 megabytes per second to 160 MBytes/s.