Qualstar Announces the Q80, an Expandable Rackmount LTO Tape Library System

Qualstar Corporation, today announced the release of Q80, a 19-inch rackmount form-factor scalable 6U high LTO Tape Library system designed for small and medium businesses and distributed deployment environments.

The Qualstar Q80 is designed to provide superior performance and value for backup, recovery and archiving environments while cost effectively accommodating growth. The Q80’s patented architecture allows easy field configuration of a unified library consisting of up to 7 individual modules containing up to 560 cartridges and 42 Half Height LTO drives. The Q80 offers outstanding storage capacity and data throughput in a system that can be expanded incrementally and cost-effectively. The Q80 features wizards to simplify installation and configuration as well as advanced diagnostics, which provide suggested actions to resolve problems quickly. With LTO 7 tape technology, the Q80 will offer a maximum of 3.36PB native storage capacity and maximum native throughput of 45.4 TB/hr.

Highlights

• Scalable from 80 to 560 tape cartridges (base + 6 expansion modules)
• 1 to 6 drives per module, up to 42 drives
• Supports LTO-6 or LTO-7 with SAS, FC or Dual Port FC
• Simple expansion, no special alignment tools required
• 5.7" Touch screen display in base unit
• Ball bearing slides standard
• Removable magazines for bulk loading/unloading
• Remote management via Ethernet
• IPV6, SNMP with SSL & TLS
• Library firmware update via remote management interface or via control panel and USB thumb drive
• Drive firmware update via remote management interface

Contact your BackupWorks.com Account Rep today at 866 801 2944 and get a Quote for the new Qualstar Q80 Tape Library.