Guide to Mass Storage Automation

This includes CD and Optical jukeboxes and tape autoloaders and associated software products
DataSure Services offers a range of options in capacity, performance, format, OS and budget.
CD-R Automation
CD-R / CD-ROM Automation offers a number of compelling features with up to 650MB per disc at under $0.35/GB with longevity over 100 years. CD-R media is compatible with DVD-II drives and offers future compatibility with DVD upgrades
Pioneer DRM1004X 100 disc 2 drive (illustrated right) up to 63GB nearline storage (illustated right)
Pioneer DRM5004X 500 disc 4 drive
Kodak Storage features 108 to 162 slot configurations in the CD Library 144
Pioneer DRM6324X 6 disc 24X changer (extermal)
Cedar Technologies CD-R Publisher 50 disc autoloader / recorder / printer (illustated right)
CD-ROM drive towers offer high performance and support changers such as the Nakamichi 5-disc16X CD-ROM changer
Software solutions include
SmartStorage SMART CD (UNIX, Netware, NT)
Tracer Technologies HyperROM and HyperGear (UNIX)
OTG CD Extender (NT)
Prassi CD Rep (NT/95) CD-R Duplication

Magneto-Optical Automation
3.5" Magneto-Optical automation was available from Fujitsu
5.25" Magneto-Optical automation with up to 5.2BG per platter on new M/O drives !
HP 660FX
Plasmon
Maxoptix
Panasonic / Phase change larger capacity drives discontinued to make way for DVD-RAM
12" Magneto-Optical Automation
SONY WDD-530 15GB/platter discontinued by SONY
Philips Infinfity 600 series 12GB/ platter up to 144GB

14" Magneto-Optical automation
Kodak OD System 2000E discontinued by Kodak (25GB/platter)

Tape Automation
4mm DAT automation
ADIC offers 4mm autoloader up to DDS-3 25GB commpressed per tape

8mm Exabyte automation
8mm AIT automation
ADIC AIT autoloaders
DLT Automation
ADIC from Fastor to Scalar (illustated right)
ATL

StorageTek

Software
Computer Associates/Cheyenne ArcServe includes support with the tape autoloader option for Netware, NT
Seagate Software (formerly Arcada, Palindrome) BackupExec with the tape autoloader option for NT, Netware
Legato
NovaStor with solutions for 95/NT, OS/2
Tracer Technologies supporting CD-R, M-O, jukeboxes in UNIX with HyperROM and MagnaVault also DLT support
KOM Inc. has drivers for M-O automation in NT, UNIX, and VMS

Other pages you may find of interest include:
Our introduction to HSM , outlining some of the benefits of automation for storage management.

our storage media page ,

Guide to Mass Storage or its constituent parts Optical Storage page and Magnetic Storage page,

our DLT page , with links to ADIC Autoloaders and DLT, EXAbyte 8mm and Autoloaders and Quantum ,
our page regarding our participation in the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies September 16-19, 1996 / March 23-26, 1998.
Introduction to HSM , DataSure's CD-R Page, Mitsui CD-R, TDK CD-R, Traxdata CD-R, Kodak CD-R, Pioneer CD-ROM and Optical Products, Yamaha CD-Recorders, Elektroson Gear CD-R Software, and Prassi CD duplication software. Web sites manufacturers and developers, or

manufacturers page, Software Developers page and information organized by Operating Systems .

Our year 2000 page to address the y2k issues and solutions .

We offer leasing options to provide our clients with financial flexibility.

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