X40-S Appliance and Q80 Library

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Powered by the X40-S Archive Appliance

The archive system is powered by an X40-S Archive Appliance which provides rich functionality including automatic LTO cartridge replication and management of an unlimited number of offline cartridges. It runs a Windows Server 2019 operating system and XenData Archive Series software. The Appliance has a 9.6 TB SSD RAID cache which is used intelligently to provide fast archive and restore operations. Archiving occurs at the speed of RAID without any of the delays associated with the access time of LTO cartridges. Restoring multiple files is optimized in the system, as files are read from LTO in tape order, minimizing total tape movement.

450 TB to 1,260 TB, expandable to 9.9 PB

Combining the X40-S Archive Appliance and a Qualstar Q80 LTO-9 library creates a highly expandable solution for long-term, secure file storage. The base configuration has 450 TB of near-line LTO capacity and scales to 1,260 TB by licensing more slots in the Q80 library. The LTO capacity can be further increased to 9.9 PB by adding library expansion modules. When used in creative video applications, the fully expanded system capacity is equivalent to over 200,000 hours of HD video, recorded at 100 Mbits/s.

Scale by adding Library Expansion Modules and LTO-9 Drives

The system includes a Qualstar Q80 scalable robotic LTO library which is designed for mounting in a standard 19 inch rack, taking from 6 to 42 U. The 450 TB base system consists of a 2 U server and an expandable 6RU LTO library with two LTO-9 drives, connected by SAS cables. It can be fully expanded to 9.9 PB of near-line LTO capacity by adding six 6RU expansion modules to the robotic library. The system may be configured with up to 4 LTO-9 drives.

X40-S Appliance and Q80 Library Product Information

X40-S Product Brief
Qualstar Q80 Manual

APIs for Developers

COM/SQL Interface
XML Interface

PBS

XenData’s fully supported clustered server meets all the requirements for our disaster recovery site. We have been very pleased with the SX-525 product and XenData’s technical team who have provided system design and integration services above and beyond expectations.

James Cutright, Director, Project Management
PBS

Crew Cuts

I did my research, and the best archive solution was from XenData which manages a robotic LTO library behind the scenes. This helps to minimize our total costs and allows us to focus on producing great content for our customers.

Chris Keenan, CTO
Crew Cuts

Ideal Systems Singapore

We partnered with XenData for the GlobeCast Broadcast facility rollout, because it offers one of the most cost effective, robust digital video archives on the market and a great migration alternative to some of the more expensive digital video archive vendor offerings.

Fintan Mc Kiernan, CEO
Ideal Systems Singapore

North Shore Automation

Having completed over 25 joint installations of XenData archive systems, we have found everyone on the XenData team to be both highly professional and super responsive and their technology to be rock solid. They are truly a pleasure to work with.

Bryson Jones, Founder
North Shore Automation

Warner Brothers Animation

Our XenData LTO archive system provides us with a central repository for all completed projects. It is a single multi-petabyte storage volume containing over 100 million files that can be easily browsed and restored.

Maxwell Frome
Warner Brothers Animation

This is Just a Test

With over 558 TB of content and growing, conventional backup solutions just don’t work for us. Our XenData system allows us to maintain an ongoing mirrored copy of our shared storage while creating replica LTO copies for offsite storage.

Nathan Flom
This is Just a Test

Excelencia

We have now installed over 170 XenData archive systems across Mexico and they have proven to be very reliable. In addition, the technical support from XenData has been outstanding.

Jorge Castaneda, President
Excelencia en Comunicaciones y Tecnología

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