OWC introduced the Mercury Pro LTO that should provide a cost-effective and easy-to-use archiving to 12TB LTO-8 tapes. The device offers an option to mount an additional HDD or SSD, write speeds of up to 360MB/s (900MB/s compressed), Thunderbolt 3 connectors, and a relatively compact housing. It is available now from $4,499. Most filmmakers who have been in the business for some time have had to deal with archiving older projects. The problem with our industry is that the amount of data can get massive with higher resolutions and bitrates. LTO tapes have been around for a while and when it comes to long-term storage, with the estimated tape longevity of 30 years, they represent one of the best solutions. OWC recently introduced a Mercury Pro LTO – let’s take a short look at its features and specs. OWC Mercury Pro LTO LTO technology was first introduced in 2000. Since then, there have been numerous generations of LTO tapes and the capacity per tape has been growing with each generation. The Mercury Pro LTO includes the IBM-LTO-8 Ultrium Drive that can read the latest LTO-8 tapes with 12TB (or 30TB compressed) storage capacity, but it can also handle the previous generation 6TB LTO-7 tapes and should even be able to use future release LTO-9 drives as well. Mercury Pro LTO. Source: OWC The advantage of using Linear Tape-Open (LTO) tapes formatted with the Linear Tape File System (LTFS) is that the tape can be accessed on the computer just like...
Published By: CineD - Friday, 23 October, 2020