The X10 Appliance supports one or two external LTO drives connected via SAS or USB. The Appliance may be used stand-alone or connected to your network. It manages an unlimited number of offline LTO cartridges, providing a cost-effective way to manage a highly scalable media archive.

The Appliance runs Windows 11 Pro and combines a file system interface and a web UI that provides previews of video and image files. However, it is not limited to media files; it archives all file types, and all file names supported by Windows.

By previewing video and image files, users ensure that they are selecting the files that they need to for restore and identifying the correct LTO cartridge.

Key Benefits

• Manages one or more LTO external drives
• Manages an unlimited number of offline LTO cartridges
• 4 TB disk cache enhances performance
• Network connection via 1 or 10 Gigabit ethernet
• Access locally or over the network as an SMB share or via web interface
• Users can play video previews and see low-res image files via the web UI
• The web interface allows users to browse, search and download files
• Writes to LTO in LTFS or TAR
• End to end logical block protection provides checksum verification
• Automatic cartridge replication when using two LTO drives
• Provides tape contents and file search reports
• Includes FS Mirror for syncing files to the archive
• Supports unalterable WORM LTO cartridges