XenData X20-S LTO Archive Appliance 1U Rackmount

XenData X20-S LTO Archive Appliance 1U Rackmount

Reliable Long-Term Media Storage

An LTO-9 cartridge securely stores 18 TB of content, provides a 30 years lifetime and delivers excellent read and write performance, especially when used with large files like video files. When LTO cartridges are managed in a robotic library with an intelligent archive appliance, such as the X20-S or X40-S, they become the ideal automated way to store video content for finished projects.

Offloading to near-line LTO can free up space on your shared disk storage. And if a project becomes active again, it is very easy to restore the content back to your primary disk storage.

Near-line LTO, with its 30 years lifetime, is much more reliable than saving to hard disks and involves minimal manual intervention. And compared to archiving in the cloud, it is much more cost effective, at least for archives with 100 TB or more.

Product Data Sheet
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X20-S Overview

The X20-S Appliance is a 1 RU rack-mounted unit that manages an LTO library with a near-line capacity of up to 900 TB.

• Manages a library up to 50 slots and 2 SAS LTO drives
• Manages unlimited externalized LTO cartridges
• Mounts LTO archive as SMB share
• Archiving and restoring is like writing to and reading from disk
• Automatically replicates LTO Cartridges
• LTFS or TAR Formats
• Fast internal SSD cache
• Easy migration to later LTO generations
• Runs Windows 10 Pro
• Requires minimal operator intervention
• Compatible with Quantum, Qualstar, Overland-Tandberg, HPE and IBM Tape Libraries

Access from Anywhere

Adding an object storage S3 Server Interface to the X20-S Appliance allows files to be written to and read from the archive from anywhere worldwide using fast and secure HTTPS. The on-premises interface and associated permissions are not affected: the LTO archive continues to be accessible locally using SMB, FTP or NFS. Consequently, the S3 interface is available as a simple upgrade to existing users, as well as for new installations.

Using the S3 Server interface allows an organization to keep the attractive aspects of LTO on-premises archives which include cost effective scalability and adds the ease of distributed access which has traditionally been associated with public cloud storage. And, unlike most public cloud services, files may be remotely downloaded free of any egress charges.

Sync Multiple LTO Archives

The Archive Appliance may be joined to others in a single globally accessible file system using Multi-Site Sync for LTO, XenData’s synchronization service that links multiple S3 enabled LTO archives, creating a single global file system accessible anywhere worldwide. As soon as a file is archived to LTO at one location, it becomes available as a stub file within the global file system. When a user makes a change by writing, overwriting or deleting a file, that change is propagated to all locations. This provides a consistent up-to-date set of files across the entire distributed organization.

Upgrade Options

Hardware Upgrades

Software Upgrades