- First connect the LTO drive to the X1 using a USB cable. You may use any of the USB ports at the rear of X1 unit. Then power on the LTO drive and wait until the green light on the front of the drive turns solid green and, only then, turn on the X1 by depressing the power button on the front of the unit. Then login to the X1.
LTO Drive Installation Instructions for USB Connected LTO-6 Drives
- Right click on the Start icon. Then scroll to and click on device manager.
- After Device Manager launches, click to expand Other devices. There will be a device with a yellow warning triangle with the name of the LTO drive. Right click on it and select update driver then ‘browse my computer for driver software’.
- Click on the ‘let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer’ then scroll down to ‘Cassette drives’ then ‘LTO’ and click on it, a ‘LTO Tape Drive’ certificate should show up under model, click ‘Next’ , ‘Yes’ then ‘Close’
- Now in the device manager will show the LTO driver under Cassette Drives.
- A registry edit needs to be performed to increase the maximum block size that can be transferred over USB. You can download a file to the X1 from the following link that will perform the edit for you: https://xendata.com/downloads/Unitex/KB2581464_UNITEX_LT60_USB.reg
Save and run the file that is downloaded. Allow the file to make changes to your device and then click ‘Yes I am sure I would like to continue’. A pop up will then appear that confirms that the keys and values contained in the file have successfully been added to the registry.
- Finally, use the XenData hardware configuration utility to recognize the LTO drive as described in the X1 Installation and User Guide.
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
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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
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
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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