Consider LTO tape for long term ‘cold’ storage. Tapes are more stable/reliable over time than HDD mechanisms, which don’t have particularly long life spans. The big benefit of LTO is the cost / TB however, with LTO-9 tapes storing 18TB and LTO-10 (brand new generation) storing 30TB and 40TB depending on which media you purchase.

An LTO-9 tape is…

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Hi Lisa, you could look at Archiware P5, https://archiware.com which is an archive-to-LTO solution with a browsable index of everything archived. Check out https://youtu.be/N8ArRIZcq_M?feature=shared for quick overview. Our USP is our MAM-like index that can also show thumbnails and proxies of media files in the archive. We run on any OS and work…

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Hi Brett, no expert here but I work with Archiware P5 who have product competitive to DNAEvolution.

We’ve been working with StorageDNA to integrate P5 into Fabric.

My understanding is that Fabric is a storage analytics tool, that sits over all your online storage + LTO archive, cloud etc, and shows everything in one view. One can spot duplication,…

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Given that ‘IBM Announce End of Support for LTFS Windows Version’..

From https://support.gosymply.com/support/solutions/articles/80001086105-ibm-announce-end-of-support-for-ltfs-windows-version

..i’m wondering which software for Windows 10 and 11 is still supporting latest Windows versions. I think many relied on the IBM software to provide LTFS…

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Maybe also consider an LTO drive and a few 12TB LTO-8 tapes which are a better storage medium for long-term archive and won’t require spinning up periodically and replacing so quickly. Cost per TB will be lower (based on cost of tapes) so you’ll be able to have two copies at different locations.

Check out Archiware P5 (https://www.archiware.com/solutions/editshare) which has a direct integration with EditShare Flow and does everything you mention above.

There’s a video I put together on that page that runs through the entire installation and use of P5 with Flow in around 20 minutes.

P5 has its own index of everything written to tape in…

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Hi Kevin, i’m in the UK and represent Archiware P5 (archiware.com) a software product that does archive to LTO standalone drives and libraries. P5 has a web UI and tracks everything archived in a browsable/searchable index. The index can also store thumbnails and proxies of media files.

Users mostly use LTO as archive storage, we also support cloud…

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Hi Jon, just tried to see if direct messages work here, so excuse the two ‘connect’ requests. You can get me via david [at] jpy.com. The BRU offer expired, currently lowest cost option for Archiware P5 is USD 1,680 which provides both backup and archive. May tick all your boxes but more sophisticated product due to full indexing and media-preview…

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Also investigate Archiware P5 Jon (I represent it in the UK) which both runs on Linux and has an internal database (index) which tracks everything you archive. UI is web-based, index can be browsed and searched in browser. Heavily used in media/broadcast people.

https://www.archiware.com

David

Hope i’m okay with a commercial message in here, it’s relevant to our storage topics. If not let me know and i’ll learn for the future.

For anyone here interested, i’m putting together a webinar for Archiware with our friends over at Symply who have some very nice storage solutions for M&E. We’ll run through our Archiware P5 Archive software, being…

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Hello again!

Yes the 5.5hrs to write 9.5GB sounds like a problem somewhere. That’s far too slow.

I honestly don’t know of a good end-user targeted resource for info on LTO tape. Maybe a gap in the market. Archiware have a YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/archiwarep5) where I post explainer/training/demo videos, so maybe an opportunity for…

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Glad that was useful Shawn. Regards you later point, one thing to bear in mind when writing files to tape, is the file sizes that you’re reading/writing and how they influence speed.

There’s a big different between asking your disk to read thousands of small files, totalling (let’s say) 1TB, versus a small number of large files that have the same…

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Hi Shawn,

Just wanted to respond regards this statement from your post..

I was told that the drive you are writing from should be at least as quick as the write speed of the mTape LTO 8 TB3 drive (which I believe is 360Mb), however finding large capacity drives here that can also write that quick is a challenge and would be very costly.

My…

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Hi Scott,

Archiware P5 will run in this environment and perform backups. Interface is web-based and pretty straightforward once basic concepts are understood.

This webinar recording runs through…

Product is ‘P5 Desktop LTO Edition’, support both backup for DR purposes and also Archive as a structured workflow to get…

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Hi Troy,

Archiware P5 Synchronize could do this. It’s a software product, can replicate files/folders from several boxes to a big NAS, either by being installed on the Avid boxes, or having that storage mounted on the NAS. Support snapshots or retention of previous versions of files. All pretty simple to setup and manage via web-admin interface.…

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Hope i’m okay publicising webinar here, it’s on subject of storage & Archiving. Please share end register!

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In this webinar, we take a deep dive into decisions and options around creating a media-focussed archive using Archiware P5 to secure data for the long term, while keeping it easily accessible. We will look at on-prem vs. cloud P5…

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Verify read speeds from TB3 raid using Blackmagic disk speed test. Write to tape won’t go any faster. Also the block size set in the P5 storage pool might be increased for more throughput.

How about LTO tape to archive your completed projects. 6TB of capacity for around 50 USD, once you’ve purchase the drive. They are simpler than hard disks and safe for 20-30 years, way beyond the lifespan you might expect from a spinning disk.

Full disclosure, I represent Archiware.com who provide a software product ‘P5’ that leverages LTO tape and…

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For those interested in Archiware P5’s new LTFS support, we presented a webinar yesterday where I ran through how it works via a demo…

Cheers,

David

Indeed! Released today. Archiware implemented their own LTFS driver. Runs on Linux, Win, Mac and FreeBSD (for the FreeNAS folk).

Details here: https://p5.archiware.com/new-features

I’ve read that the SAS <-> Thunderbolt bridge requires a driver update to work with the new M1 architecture Macs. I don’t know which bridge you’re using, you don’t say, but check with the vendor to see if it’s compatible with M1 Macs and there should be a firmware update available now or soon.

Dave

My workflow would be to remove all the render files from the FCP project and keep the entire project as the archive, so you can continue editing in the future should you need to. My ‘render files’ I mean anything that has been generated by FCP/FCPX that can be generated again in future, and therefore doesn’t need to take up disk space for the time…

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Full disclosure – I represent the product mentioned below in the UK.

Check out Archiware P5 – http://p5.archiware.com

This performs Archive/Backup/Replication and is popular in the M&E space, been around for 19 years at least. It supports all the tape hardware that the TOLIS products did, has browser-based config/admin and runs on all the latest…

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