FAST DISK ARCHIVE ARCHIVE
FAST DISK ARCHIVE SOFTWARE

FAST DISK ARCHIVE ARCHIVE

You’ll find Optical Disc Archive solutions from Sony at work in a wide range of environments where speedy, reliable access to your precious data is crucial – along with effortless scalability and attractive ownership costs. The system can also be used for news and sports clips that need to be near-online and as an on-line browse and proxy clip store. It provides second copy archive at a remote site and is ideal for business continuity/disaster recovery, post house and production back-up and for video, film and stock footage archives or national archives. The Sony Optical Disc Archive system is ideal for deep archive for very long term archiving, such as broadcaster archives where data tape does not provide the assurance or meet the need for write-once, very long-term archive requirements. Ideal for deep archive and near-online archive Generation1 Cartridge : ODC300R/RE, ODC600R/RE, ODC1200RE, ODC1500R Generation2 Cartridge : ODC3300R Generation1 Cartridge : ODC5500R ODS-D55U/ODS-D77UA/ODS-D77F can read/write from/to Generation1 cartridge. ODS-D280U/ODS-D280F can read from Generation1~2 cartridge and write to Generation2 cartridge.

ODS-D380U/ODS-D380F can read from Generation1~3 cartridge and write to Generation2,3 cartridge. * 5.5TB ODC5500R and 3.3TB ODC3300R cartridge is write-once. Sony optical disc cartridges are available in 600GB, 1.2TB, 1.5TB, 3.3TB and 5.5TB * capacity sizes, in re-writable and write-once formats.

The innovative drive design provides for a ‘dual channel’ capability and, being file format independent, it can store your assets in a data file format. With a low total cost of ownership, the Sony optical disc cartridge offers very fast random access to all content and files. The drive unit handles a single optical disc cartridge that offers an alternative to LTO or traditional forms of data tape for the longer-term archiving of valuable assets. (Generation 2, 3)ĭeep archive for very long-term archiving requirementsįully backward-read compatible, the Sony Optical Disc Archive drive technology is designed to provide read capability for all generations of optical disc cartridge media, giving you access to your content for 100+ years, whilst eliminating the need for a forced media migration due to media and drive obsolescence. * Referring to the ISO/IEC16963 method, this is the estimated average archival life of an archival bare disc calculated by internal acceleration testing. The ODS-D380U Optical Disc Archive stand-alone drive unit is part of the Optical Disc family of data storage products designed to provide an extended life cycle for storing and archiving all forms of audio-visual assets and data files for the very long term. To put the figure of 5.5TB into perspective you could store 170 hours of 50Mbps MPEG2 HD 422 material or 49 hours of XAVC-L422 UHD 200Mbps second material on a single disk.ġ00 years estimated archive life for all data files*.Optical disc cartridges mounted as a single large volume making file access very simple.SuperSpeed USB 10 Gbps (USB 3.2) interface for ease of connectivity.In many cases, the CD-ROM images can be browsed online, and individual files pulled from them.SONY Optical Disc Archive Standalone ODS-D380U

FAST DISK ARCHIVE SOFTWARE

This very large collection of cover disc images and files provides invaluable assistance to historical research, access to long-gone game and software company material, and early steps for genres of software that either took root or disappeared. Pure CD-ROM and DVD-ROM magazines have also flourished to various degree. These attached floppies (and cassettes as well) might have one or two programs on them.Īfter the dawn of CD-ROMs, packed-in CD-ROMs (and later DVD-ROMs) expanded out into lauded utilities and games, and also included drivers, demos, promotional material (including game trailers), and ultimately could be entire productions in themselves, providing menu-driven access to software with the magazine just referencing what was in the included CD-ROM. In the early years of home computer ownership, magazines and newsletters might come bundled with a floppy disk to make it easier to load up programs discussed within their pages.

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