4 Million RDX Removable HDDs Sold by Tandberg Data/Sphere3D in 10 Years

Tandberg Data GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sphere 3D Corp., announced a milestone that has been a decade in the making.

More than 4 million RDX have been sold by the company and its OEM partners – representing a cumulative capacity in excess of 1.5EB of storage.

For comparison, 1EB of storage is estimated to equal 100,000 times the printed material, or up to 3,000 times all forms of content contained in the US Library of Congress.(1)

Patented RDX technology, a disk-based removable storage format for backup, archive and DR, is an example of innovation and brand equity among technical products. At the end of 2006, th company created a new era in backup and restore capabilities when it introduced the first RDX QuikStordrives with RDX cartridges. In the decade since, RDX products have been recognized by customers and press for security and reliability in long-term storage, archive and backup.

“RDX technology has been a very important part of our overall backup and recovery portfolio for Hewlett Packard Enterprise because it is so reliable and easy for our customers to use,” said Doug Cirruzzo, category manager, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP. “Unlike other comparable technologies that have now disappeared from the market, the RDX solution has continued to offer a high level of effectiveness and usability while maintaining the technological leadership required by dynamic IT environments. We congratulate Tandberg Data on its 10th anniversary and look forward to continuing our partnership for decades to come.”

RDX removable disk-based technology provides fast backup and restore with a durable and ruggedized form factor. The family delivers cost-efficient, long-term storage and archive solutions to SMB with growing storage needs. It combines the portability and reliability of tape-based backup with the speed and simplicity of HDD.

Ruggedized RDX cartridges are shockproof, can sustain a one-meter drop onto a concrete floor, are protected against electrostatic discharge events and support an archival lifetime of more than ten years.

“We are excited to celebrate this successful milestone of RDX technology, crafted from our combined history of innovation and performance reliability,” said Randy Gast, president of storage and COO, Sphere 3D. “The past 10 years could not have been possible without the dedication and consistency of our employees, partners and customers. We look forward to continue working together to pursue the growing demand that we see in areas like professional workflow, archive solutions, and hybrid clouds, as well as from vertical markets like media and entertainment.”

“The Tandberg team is delighted to celebrate this remarkable 10 year milestone of RDX technology in the long-term storage, archive and backup market. With more than 4 million devices deployed worldwide, RDX has shown leadership in the area of removable and transportable business-grade media,” said Hugo Bergmann, product line manager RDX storage and software solutions, Tandberg Data. “It’s an honor that RDX has been utilized and trusted by hundreds of thousands of businesses using it for daily storage and archiving of critical business data.”

About RDX Technology
The RDX series provides scalability, centralized management, is encryption and duplication capable, and reliability for backup, archive, data interchange and DR. RDX provides enterprise performance and fast access, with transfer rates of up to 1,188GB per hour and capacities up to 4TB per cartridge, plus future expansion to larger capacity media enabled by Sphere 3D’s RDX+ technology while maintaining the backward compatibility to legacy RDX products.

RDX QuikStor is available as an external desktop or internal server drive with SATA III, USB 3.0 or USB3+ connectivity. RDX QuikStation4 and RDX QuikStation 8 are rackmount and removable disk appliances for SMBs, offering 1GbE or 10GbE iSCSI connectivity and an online capacity of up to 32TB. RDX HDD media are available in the range between 500GB and 4TB, RDX SSD media up to 256GB and RDX WORM media with 500GB and 1TB. All RDX media capacities are forward and backward compatible.

(1) Terabytes, Gigabytes, & Petabytes: How Big are They?