[Doug Hynes]

Hello Mae – there are other alternative solutions to help you with LTFS workflows. At the desktop level, LTFS is not very friendly – yes, you can access your files using Explorer or Finder – but the “free” drivers provided by HP/Quantum/IBM do not alleviate the clunkiness of using LTFS at the desktop level. Please check out StorageDNA’s solutions – or feel free to contact me directly for more information. We have a great product that will meet your needs for nearline and archive using LTO/LTFS.

Regards,

Doug Hynes

Senior Workflow Specialist
StorageDNA

[Doug Hynes]

Ditto on everything Bob says in his post about hard drives….but there are LTO solutions that perform well, thanks in part to LTFS formatting capability. Also, a good piece of software between the NLE and/or MAM that is metadata aware makes a very big difference when needing to restore your content – makes it so much easier to do project-based archive and restore rather than just “backing up” files and having to manually keep track of where things are. StorageDNA offers such a solution and at very reasonable prices – plus it can take some of the “suckiness” out of doing these tasks.