XenData SXL-6500 LTO-7 Digital Video Archive System

XenData Ltd. has released the SXL-6500, a LTO-7 digital video archive system.

The SXL-6500 is a turnkey, rackmount archive solution that combines the company’s SX-550 Series archive server and an Oracle International Corporation ‘s SL150, a expandable robotic LTO-7 library.

The base SXL-6500 model consists of a 2RU SX-551 archive server and a 3RU LTO library with two internal LTO-7 drives and 30 slots providing a near-line capacity of 180TBs. The base model also includes 4.8TBs of RAID for file caching that enhances performance during archive and restore operations. Furthermore, the near-line LTO capacity can be increased by adding up to nine 2RU expansion modules to the library, with each expansion module including 30 additional LTO slots that provide 180TB of additional capacity. When fully expanded, the SXL-6500 system can accommodate up to 300 slots with a near-line LTO capacity of 1,800TBs, which is equivalent to over 75,000 hours of HD video recorded at 50Mb/s.

The SXL-6500 system connects to a network via a 1GbE or 10GbE connection that provides a NAS architecture configured to provide a network share and a standard file-folder interface to both archive and restore files, which allows users to create a folder structure on the archive, just as they would on a disk-based server or disk-based NAS. Users can then drag and drop, copy and paste or use an FTP utility to move files to and from the archive. This is well suites for video applications that do not need the complexity of a media asset management (MAM).

In addition, the SXL-6500 has an object storage interface and is compatible with most media asset management systems including Avid Interplay, CatDV, eMAM and MAMs from Apace, axle Video, Evertz, Dalet and Metus.

The system writes to LTO using the LTFS format, allowing cartridge interchange with other vendors, while supporting the spanning of files and folders across cartridges and partial file restores. It also offers the added flexibility to automatically replicate LTO cartridges for data protection and DR purposes. Furthermore, management of an unlimited number of offline (externalized) cartridges is included, effectively providing an unlimited capacity.

The SXL-6500 comes with on-site support in most locations worldwide with pricing starting at $42,850 for the base 180TB system.