#SPECTRA LOGIC T50E SOFTWARE#
I find it pleasantly surprising that a company today can just supply tape libraries with software and make a ongoing concern of it. Matt Starr Spectra Logic CTO talked about the history of tape libraries at Spectra Logic which was founded in 1998 and has been laser focused on tape data protection and tape libraries. Digital files on LTO tape should solve that problem for them when they finally get there.
He said a recent move from one site to another revealed that much of the Betacam tapes were no longer readable. They still have a lot of old media in Betacam format which will take them years to convert to digital files but they are at least starting this activity. The process is still ongoing although they are more than halfway there for current production. They were in the process of moving off of proprietary video tape format (Sony Betacam) to LTO media and digital files. Perez from MedCom had much the same story.
3D printer at Spectra Logic (for mechanical parts fabrication) (c) 2011 Silverton Consulting, All Rights Reserved He found that SATA drives can handle their big block sequential and provide consistent throughput and especially important to M&E companies consistent latency. He said they only use SSDs for some metadata support for their web site. They use FC and FCoE storage for their primary storage and depend on 1000s of SATA drives for primary storage access. They have a 4-frame T-950 with around 4000 slots and 14 drives (combination of LTO-4 and -5). Typically they keep two copies in their tape library and important media is also copied to tape and shipped offsite (3 copies for this data).
#SPECTRA LOGIC T50E ARCHIVE#
Nat Geo started out only putting important media in the library but found it just cost so much less to just store it in the tape archive that they decided it made more sense to just move all media to the tape library. Knack from Nat Geo Media said every bit of media they get anymore, automatically goes into the library archive and becomes the “original copy” of the media used in case other copies are corrupted or lost. Spectra Logic T-950 (I think) with TeraPack loaded in robot (c) 2011 Silverton Consulting, All Rights Reserved He also showed a piece on some early Eddie Murphy film footage and interviews they had done at the time which they used in a recent segment about his new movie.Īll this was made possible by moving to digital file formats and placing digital media in their T-950 tape libraries. He talked specifically about the obit they did for Michael Jackson and how they were able to grab footage from an interview they did years ago and splice it together with more recent media to show a more complete story.
#SPECTRA LOGIC T50E MOVIE#
Collins from ET spoke almost reverently about their T-950 and how it has enabled ET to access over 30 years of video interviews, movie segments and other media they can now use to put together clips on just about any entertainment subject imaginable. The tour was a blast and the customers Kyle Knack from National Geographic (Nat Geo) Global Media, Toni Perez from Medcom (Panama based entertainment company) and Lee Coleman from Entertainment Tonight (ET) all talked about their use of the T-950 Spectra Logic tape libraries in the media ingest, editing and production processes. Today I met with Spectra Logic execs and some of their Media and Entertainment (M&E) customers, and toured their manufacturing, test labs and briefing center. T-Finity library at SpectraLogic's test facility (c) 2011 Silverton Consulting, All Rights Reserved
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