This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Sony's BluRay archive option shipping

Friday, January 24, 2014

Re: [Avid-L2] Sony's BluRay archive option shipping

We recently switched to that method, too- LTO 6 is surprisingly fast for restore - but not as fast as the spinning media, which often doesn't even need to be copied if you're just looking for a single file.

Another consideration for LTO is the software- there's no one 'standard' format and storage scheme, though LTFS is trying to be that standard. HP has 'free' LTFS software, but it's slooooowwww for restore.

I have a BRU license, left over from our brief flirtation with LTO4 (too slow to be practical for anything but long-term archive that you never actually want to restore) but don't like the proprietary nature if BRU. At Bob Z's suggestion were using software called 'prerollpost' from imagine products, which is working great so far. Faster than copying drive-to-drive since our drives are eSata 'toasters' but the LTO is SAS.

No one ever calls us and says 'can you create a bunch if blu-ray backups for us?' We get calls for LTO regularly.

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On Jan 24, 2014, at 9:49 AM, John Beck <jb30343@windstream.net> wrote:

I'm currently archiving to both LTO and bare esata drive. LTO for the
long term archive. Hard drive for ease of access. I should store them
in separate places but I haven't reached that point yet. --J.B.

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> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Mark Spano <cutandcover@gmail.com
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> Yeah, this product at the price point they have it is a complete
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> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Dom Q. Silverio
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> $280 for 1.5TB disc.
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> LTO-5 is about $30 - $40 for 1.5TB. Drives start around $2K.
> LTO-6 is about $60 - $80 for 2.5TB. Drives start around $3K
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> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:05 AM, <tcurren@aol.com
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> Looks like they finally have a product. Now I have to
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> http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/product-ODSD77U/
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