YoYotta ID + LTFS Support for Two Standalone Tape Drives

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YoYotta ID + LTFS Support for Two Standalone Tape drives (macOS)
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LTFS Archiving

Linear Tape File System is a standard format for writing files to tape. It's ideal for storing production and post media as the LTO tapes can be mounted and read on Linux, macOS and Windows. You aren't locked into a proprietary archive.

YoYotta LTFS

YoYotta LTFS includes all the features of YoYotta and adds the ability to create archives in parallel to two standalone LTO drives using LTFS. Quickly create industry standard archives on LTO-8, LTO-7, LTO-6 or LTO-5 tapes. YoYotta names, formats, mounts and repairs tape archives. During the archive YoYotta calculates both MD5 and xxHash checksums and then automatically uses these to read back and verify every file.

YoYotta remembers the contents of every tape created so later on you can search to find the location of shots.

LTO Tape

 

LTO-9 tape stores up to 17.45 TB and are a lot faster at 250-300MB/s and 350-400MB/s for full height drives.

LTO-8 tape stores up to 11.3 TB and are a lot faster at 250-300MB/s.

LTO-7 tape stores up to 5.6 TB and are a lot faster at 250-300MB/s.

LTO-6 tape stores up to 2.3 TB and are a little faster at 160MB/s.

LTO-5 tape stores up to 1.25 TB and can be read or written at 140MB/s.

Some space is reserved for LTFS tape indexes.

Unlike hard drives the tapes are designed with a 30 year shelf life.

All tapes must have barcode labels, this identifies the tape and allows use in a library.

We can supply LTO tapes in Europe at great prices with custom YoYotta ID labels printed on durable plastic. They have a standard barcode, plus you can add unique text labels on the left as shown opposite. So you can clearly label Main and Safety, or add a project ident. Unlike other labels each tape can have a different code, you are not limited to a set sequence.

IBM make all LTO-7 and LTO-8 mechanisms, so we supply IBM Barium Ferrite tapes for perfect compatibility.

Contact support@yoyotta.com for a quote.

Smart Queuing

YoYotta has a smart queue, so multiple copies can be started and they will be processed in order when the destination drive is available.

Connecting LTO drives to a Mac

The LTFS standard requires an LTO-8, LTO-7, LTO-6 or LTO-5 tape drive. LTO drives have either SAS or Fibre Channel interfaces.

Use SAS drives, they are cheaper, they use more durable cables, there is no configuration and SAS gives the same performance.

To connect a SAS or FC LTO-5, 6, 7 or 8 drive to a Mac use the ATTO ExpressSAS H680, H1280 or ATTO Celerity FC PCIe cards from ATTO.

H644 and H608 cards can also be used, but ensure they have the correct SAS connectors for your drive.

See this link for more details on the ATTO.

These PCIe cards can go in a Thunderbolt expansion like the Sonnet Echo Express SEL shown here.

 

The Sonnet Echo Express SEL is a compact Thunderbolt enclosure that holds a PCIe card like the ATTO H680. A lot of our customers use this to connect to a desktop SAS LTO drive or tape library. Get the Thunderbolt 3 unit as this means that there is plenty of bandwidth for multiple LTO drives and also daisy chaining other Thunderbolt units. The Apple TB3 -> TB2 adaptor allows connection to older Thunderbolt 2 Macs. There are also other units that hold more than one card.

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