OWC has announced its Mercury Pro LTO archival and restore system. This new desktop-based hardware is being bundled with the ArGest® backup software for free. ArGest® gives you drag and drop asset management for a tape-based data medium with full LTFS (Linear Tape File System). OWC claims that ArGest® is the fastest backup and archival software available with data transfer speeds of 300 MB/s to LTO-7 and LTO-8 tapes. After transfer your archives are fully verified and restorable with the maximum amount of data on nearly any OS. OWC also claim that ArGest® Backup is the only backup and archiving tool that can recover from errors. It will restore as much data as possible even in the event of a lost or damaged tape. ArGest® archive and backup are now bundled with the Mercury Pro system (credit: OWC) Why LTO tape is still the best archival medium Monitoring and evaluation professionals, corporations, government branches, and small businesses face the same challenge: managing an ever-increasing amount of complex data. LTO tape has been the archival medium of choice since the early 2000s mainly because of its cheap cost. Spectra Logic’s Digital Data Storage Report comments that currently LTO media costs are a bit over $5/TB or about $0.5 cents per GB, considerably less than HDD storage. But the total cost of tape storage must include the costs of the tape drives, tape library and robotics. The Spectra Logic report says that magnetic tape storage is still under $10/TB, while HDD storage...
Published By: CineD - Thursday, 26 August, 2021