Quantum TC-L93CN-AR external drive kit

EU PlugQuantum TC-L93CN-AR LTO-9 SAS External Tape Drive Kit Elevate your data protection strategy with the Quantum TC-L93CN-AR, a high-performance external tape drive kit designed for servers and data centers demanding robust, long-term archival solutions.

In an era of exponential data growth and escalating cybersecurity threats, this LTO-9 drive provides a powerful combination of massive capacity, stringent security, and exceptional reliability.

It is the definitive choice for businesses seeking to secure critical assets, meet compliance requirements, and implement a cost-effective tiered storage strategy.

By creating a physical air gap, this drive ensures your archived data remains offline and invulnerable to network-based threats like ransomware, providing ultimate peace of mind.

Key Benefits:

- Exceptional Storage Density:Dramatically reduce your data center footprint and media management costs.

With the immense capacity offered by LTO-9 technology, you can consolidate vast amounts of data onto fewer cartridges, simplifying your archival process and lowering the total cost of ownership.

- Ultimate Ransomware Protection:Safeguard your most valuable data with the inherent security of an offline tape copy.

This external drive enables a true air-gapped backup, making your archives physically inaccessible to online attacks.

Further enhance security with built-in WORM (Write-Once, Read-Many) functionality to create immutable, unalterable data copies for compliance and legal hold purposes.

- Long-Term Archival Confidence:Built for longevity, LTO tape media boasts a shelf life of over 30 years, far surpassing the lifespan of traditional hard drives.

This makes the Quantum TC-L93CN-AR the ideal solution for preserving corporate records, scientific data, and digital media assets for decades to come with proven and reliable technology.

- Streamlined Performance:Accelerate your backup and restore operations to minimize downtime.

The drive´s impressive data transfer rates significantly reduce backup windows, ensuring your critical systems are protected quickly and efficiently without impacting production environments.

- Simplified Data Access:Leverage the power of the Linear Tape File System (LTFS).

LTFS allows the drive to operate like a standard network-attached storage (NAS) device, enabling intuitive drag-and-drop file access and management.

This removes complexity and makes retrieving data from tape as simple as accessing files on a hard drive.

Main Features.

- Latest Generation LTO-9 Tape Technology.

- Hardware-Based AES 256-bit Data Encryption.

- Support for Linear Tape File System (LTFS).

- WORM (Write-Once, Read-Many) Cartridge Functionality.

- Backward Read/Write Compatibility with LTO-8 Media.

- High-Speed 12 Gb/s SAS Connectivity.

- Proactive Drive and Media Health Monitoring Tapes This drive utilizes LTO Ultrium 9 data cartridges, which represent the pinnacle of tape storage technology.

Each tape provides an enormous native storage capacity of 18 TB and a compressed capacity of up to 45 TB.

These tapes are engineered for extreme durability and reliability, ensuring your data remains intact and accessible for long-term retention requirements.

Technical Specifications.

- Drive Technology:LTO Ultrium 9.

- Native Capacity:18 TB.

- Compressed Capacity:Up to 45 TB (assuming 2.5:1 compression).

- Native Transfer Rate:Up to 400 MB/s.

- Compressed Transfer Rate:Up to 1.000 MB/s.

- Interface:12 Gb/s SAS (Serial Attached SCSI).

- Data Encryption:AES 256-bit