End of Life for Qualstar TLS-8000 and RLS-8000 Libraries

Qualstar Corporation has ended production of the TLS-8000 and RLS-8000 tape library families.

Warranties, technical support and service programs are unaffected by this announcement.

Both product lines have been superseded by the recently introduced RLS-8350 and RLS-8500 Expandable Tape Libraries.

Using Qualstar’s exclusive FastPass elevator assembly, the new libraries are customer-expandable from 50 slots and three LTO-5 tape drives to over 470 slots, 1.4PB or over 53,000 hours of SD video, and 20 drives in a 19" rack.

The RLS-8350 and RLS-8500 libraries also include built-in encryption key management to protect against data loss while tapes are in transit to external disaster protection sites or other remote locations. The user-specified keys unlock the powerful AES 256-bit encryption capability built into every LTO-5 tape drive.

These libraries are available through a network of authorized resellers.