{"id":54,"date":"2013-12-10T16:15:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T16:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagestore.co.uk\/latest\/?p=54"},"modified":"2015-12-16T11:03:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T11:03:27","slug":"tape-storage-mac-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imagestore.co.uk\/latest\/2013\/12\/tape-storage-mac-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Tape Storage for Mac Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagestore.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/imac.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-56 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.imagestore.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/imac.jpg\" alt=\"imac\" width=\"95\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagestore.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/imac.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.imagestore.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/imac-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.imagestore.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/imac-85x85.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 95px) 100vw, 95px\" \/><\/a>We are seeing more and more Mac users looking into the different options available today for their data storage solutions. LTO tape is a serious contender with its reliability, versatility and cost effectiveness.\u00a0With many users in high end data consumption (in excess of 1TB daily\/weekly), speed and ease of storage also come into play.<\/p>\n<p>Bundles are now available so that users can buy all that is needed without shopping around for additional parts. So, what is needed? Actually, what is in the bundle..!<\/p>\n<p>First is the Drive. Decide your needs (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lto.org\/images\/LTO_8GenChart_2012_300DPI.jpg\">LTO tape generation chart<\/a>) and go with that technology. The latest is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagestore.co.uk\/lto-and-ait-tape-drives\/lto-tape-drives\/lto-6-tape-drives\/\">LTO6 drive<\/a> whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagestore.co.uk\/storage-media----tapes-disks-and-cartridges\/lto-tapes\/\">media tapes <\/a>can hold 2.5TB of uncompressed data (Consider using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagestore.co.uk\/storage-media----tapes-disks-and-cartridges\/lto-tapes\/lto-5-tapes\/\">LTO 5 tapes<\/a> while prices are high for LTO6 tapes, these will reduce in time). The drive usually come with a SAS interface (Fibre Channel is available).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.attotech.com\/products\/family.php?id=15\">Atto cards\/adapters<\/a> are then linked to connect to your Mac system via the USB or Thunderbolt (SAS, Fibre and\/or Thunderbolt cables will be required).<\/p>\n<p>The Mac will require software to enable you to transfer and read data for which we recommend the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tolisgroup.com\/products\/software\/\">Tolis Bru software<\/a>. The<a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.productionbackup.com\/brupe\/about\"> PE\u00a0edition<\/a>\u00a0is an extremely easy, creative, drag and drop method.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-57 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.imagestore.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/thunderbolt-systems_no-caption-300x137.png\" alt=\"thunderbolt-systems_no-caption\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A straight forward set up and you are now ready to back up\/archive all your valuable data resource.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagestore.co.uk\/contact-us\/\">contact us<\/a> if you require further information on this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are seeing more and more Mac users looking into the different options available today for their data storage solutions. LTO tape is a serious contender with its reliability, versatility and cost effectiveness.\u00a0With many users in high end data consumption (in excess of 1TB daily\/weekly), speed and ease of storage also come into play. Bundles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,11,3,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagestore.co.uk\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagestore.co.uk\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagestore.co.uk\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagestore.co.uk\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagestore.co.uk\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagestore.co.uk\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagestore.co.uk\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagestore.co.uk\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagestore.co.uk\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagestore.co.uk\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagestore.co.uk\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}