Easy LTO

Backup & Archive Solution 4K & 8K

Who needs Easy LTO?

Post-Production and Broadcast

4K and 8K production sizes and growing demands for content are driving post-production and broadcast operations to the edge of current systems. GB Labs is here to help with a professional LTO system to archive your critical assets while prolonging the life of your tapes and drives in a way that no other system can. 

Video and Ad Agencies

As agencies adapt to an ever increasing digital market, storage demands are skyrocketing. The need for a complete intelligent way to archive client projects is critical to the bottom line. GB Labs science extends the life of your tapes and drives while significantly reducing the time it takes to archive projects to tape. 

Print and Design

Print and Design companies are developing large libraries of client material that needs to be safeguarded for future use as well as expanding into the use and integration of video to maintain a competitive edge. Lean IT resources need solid professional solutions to get the job done with out fail. Easy LTO delivers when others fail. 

Education and Training

Daily and weekly seminars and training videos can require as much storage and horsepower as producing a major movie. An archive strategy for your ongoing footage is critical. Storing your projects on hard drives sitting in a cabinet will result in losing your data since these drives need to be spun up regularly or they fail. LTO tape has a 30 year lifetime. 

YouTube and Promotion

All promotion today leads to YouTube and other online venues that demand fresh content and you are here to give it to them. All that video needs a place to be ingested and saved. LTO technology is the perfect solution for protection of raw footage but only Easy LTO gives you a professional turnkey backup and archive solution. 

Medical and Research

Critical scientific and medical research is being captured every day and recorded to help document medical procedures, new innovations and train future doctors and scientists. Easy LTO is designed to make the implementation of a professional archiving strategy possible for all levels of expertise. 

Performance

GB Labs developed the HyperWrite technology to significantly reduce the time it takes to write to tape while extending the life of your LTO tape and drive. Typical LTO systems pause after each file is written without optimization. This means that typical LTO systems can take all day to finish a single job. By using Hyperwrite GB Labs crushes long write times by writting at native LTO speeds of 300MBps even with small files. By intelligently optimizing how we write to tape there is a massive reduction in the wear to the LTO tape itself as well as the drive. If you need a truly professional and safe system to use in your archiving process Easy LTO with HyperWrite is the only choice. 

What can Easy LTO do for me?

• Restore: Reads third party tape catalogs 
• Direct: Plug your USB 3 and NAS drives straight into the back
• Easy: Wizard driven LTO user interface 
• Open: Support for LTFS and TAR 
• Fast: Dual 10GbE Ethernet connection and USB 3.x
• Backup: Truly integrated nearline storage up to 24TB in RAID 5**
• Instant: Access recently archived projects instantly
• Webview: Browse SmartBackup via HTTP**

** these features require SmartBackup option 

The SmartBackup option adds critical functionality to your system that will simplifying archiving and safeguard your creative projects like no other solution. The SmartBackup system provides a powerful intergrated nearline protected by RAID5 and powered by GB Labs vetted science to create turnkey backup configurations. No other solution on the market can provide you with the power, speed, safety and simplicity of Easy LTO with SmartBackup. Don't risk your important footage and creative projects by leaving them on drives stacked on desks, shelves and in cabinets. Spinning drives left sitting will eventually fail. LTO tape provides 30 years of protection and Smartbackup makes it a breeze to choose a backup/archive strategy or action and implement it in minutes. 

SmartBackup powers the following: 

• Backup: Safeguard your project files to Easy LTO 
• Automate: Let Easy LTO archive your projects to tape automatically
• Migrate: Tranferring old tape libraries to later LTO6 or LTO7 tape using the internal storage
• Cloud integration: Exchanging data with Cloud services such as Amazon S3
• Universal: Create Workspaces everyone can connect to via SMB/AFP/NFS and HTTP
• Instant Access: Recently archived projects on tape are still available in seconds 

Typical LTO systems fail to deliver on the promise of LTO6 and LTO7 because they just can't write to the tape fast enough or from a variety of sources at the same time. You end up spending most of your time babysitting the archiving process. Easy LTO fixes all of that! 

Easy LTO with SmartBackup is optimized not only to write at native LTO7 speeds but to do so from multiple sources at the same time when you include Smartbackup. Have a USB or DAS storage? Plug it straight into the back and transfer data at top speeds without impacting the network. It's that Easy. 

Specifications

• Weight: 9.2Kg 
• Dimensions: 41 x 26.5 x 21 cm
• Input Range: 100 - 240 VAC, 50-60Hz
• Power Requirement Standby: 15W
• Power Requirement Full Load: 275W
• PSU Safety: EMS - USA-UL listed, Canada-CUL listed, Germany-TUV Certified, EN60950/IEC60950-Compliant, CB Report, CCC Certification
• Single 500W PSU as standard
• Operating Temperature Range: 0 - 40°C
• Non-Operating Temperature Range: -40 - 70°C
• Operating Humidity Range: 8 - 85% non-condensing 
• Non-Operating Humidity Range: 5 - 95% non-condensing 
• Portable Unit 
• Number of drives: 1 x LTO 6/7 no storage or 1 x LTO 6/7 with up to 24TB HDD
• Drive Type: Enterprise HDD
• OS Drive Type: Enterprise SSD 
• RAID Protection: RAID 5
• USB 3.1 connectivity 
• 3 Year care plan

Options

• Ethernet Cards: Additional connectivity can be added to the unit using PCI cards, with options for additional; 40GbE, 25GbE, 10GbE and 1GbE
• Redundant OS: Further resilience can be added by selecting a hardware mirrored OS; kit includes RAID controller and dual SSD.
• RAID Controllers: Additional performance controllers can be added to the unit for more capacity and performance; up to two controllers can be fitted to a single chassis. 
• Warranty Extension: Total peace of mind can be added with comprehensive Warranty, covering all parts inside the unit and all incremental software updates within that period; 3 Year Warranty (1+2), 5 Years Warranty (1+4). 
• Cold Spare Parts: Hardware replacement parts can be kept onsite for immediate response such as; hard disks, PSU, RAID controller. 
• Network Accessories: GB Labs storage is developed for total cross platform compatibility, allowing PC, Mac and Linux platforms to collaborate and share data freely and efficiently.