Tape Conversion Service
When tape storage infrastructures are updated or replaced, it is often necessary to convert data from older, incompatible formats. Doing so enables an organization to free itself from holding on to soon-to-be obsolete tape devices and the costly service agreements that accompany them. Additional savings can be enjoyed by fully leveraging higher capacity tape formats to perform tape library consolidation.
PeakData’s Tape Conversion Service helps companies convert data from aging technologies like DLT/SDLT, 3480/3490, and 3590 to current tape formats like Linear Tape Open (LTO) Ultrium™, StorageTek™ 9840, 9940, and T10000 and many others. Key benefits include:
- On-site service delivery with no impact to production operations; or, off-site at one of PeakData’s secure, state-of-the-art facilities
- Maximizing the investment in storage while aligning costs and risks
- Enhancing data protection and security to help reduce business risk
- Meeting data retention requirements and enhancing access and recovery
Fortunately, PeakData Services understands these cost and access challenges and also knows that it is possible to eliminate the business risk associated with missing or inaccessible data and reduce cost at the same time. We are a company with 20 years experience helping customers achieve the necessary business and technology architecture to assure appropriate access to archived data at a cost that can be surprisingly affordable.
Take a look at the following chart to get a sense of what condensing your tape archive could look like. Remember, every cartridge you squeeze out of your archive could save you as much as a dollar a month!
| Cartridge Reduction Savings | |||||
| Tape Drive Model |
Cartridge Capacity GB |
Performance MB/second |
Cartridge reduction when converted to: | ||
| LTO-3 80MB/s 400GB |
IBM TS1120 100MB/s 500 GB Sun T10000 120 MB/s 500GB |
Quantum DLT S4 60 MB/s 800GB |
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| 3420-8 | 0.18 | 1.25 | 2,222 | 2,777 | 4,444 |
| 3480 / 4480 | 0.2 | 3 | 2,000 | 2,500 | 4,000 |
| 3490 / 4490 | 0.4 - 0.8 | 3 / 4.5 | 500 - 1000 | 625 - 1,250 | 1,000 - 2,000 |
| 3490E / 9490 | 0.4 - 0.8 | 3 / 6 | 500 - 1000 | 625 - 1,250 | 1,000 - 2,000 |
| 3590 | 10 - 40 | 9 - 14 | 10 - 40 | 12 - 50 | 20 - 80 |
| 9840 | 10 - 40 | 10 - 30 | 10 - 40 | 12 - 50 | 20 - 80 |
| DLT 2000 | 10 | 1.25 | 40 | 50 | 80 |
| DLT 4000 | 20 | 1.25 | 20 | 25 | 40 |
| DLT 7000 | 35 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 22 |
| DLT 8000 | 40 | 6 | 11 | 14 | 22 |
| Exabyte 8200 | 2.4 | 0.24 | 166 | 208 | 332 |
| Exabyte Mammoth | 20 | 3 | 20 | 25 | 40 |