Looking for ways to cut costs in soft economic times? Who isn’t?

When looking for new ways to save, it’s important to keep quality in mind. When it comes to data storage, there are several ways you can save money in the short run. But only one of those solutions will also ensure the long-term well being of your organization, along with the security of its valuable intellectual property: Eco-Stor^TM Certified for Reuse^TM tape media, courtesy of California-based Recycle Your Media.

Designed with security and durability in mind, products developed by Recycle Your Media are an eco-friendly way to go. More importantly, their quality is on par with their name-brand (and brand new) counterparts – and they’re available at fraction of what those products cost. In fact, at 20-50% less than new media tapes, Recycle Your Medias’ products can help companies save in excess of $30,000 in their data storage needs.

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You could hold off on purchasing new means of data storage. But why put your company at risk? Hanging on to massive amounts of information not only bogs your information systems down – it makes you vulnerable should the worst happen (i.e. a lawsuit, an audit, or any other scenario in which information may be seized or held for litigation).

Buyer beware

You could also opt to invest in deceptively marketed and suspiciously cheap data storage that‘s made to sound as though it’s as safe and secure as our products. Be cautious: just because it’s touted as recertified or refurbished, it has not been put through the same rigorous testing and certifications as our products have. Recertified or refurbished data storage is definitely the way to go – just make sure it’s Certified for Reuse^TM!

Certified for Reuse^TM

Eco-Stor™ Certified for Reuse™ tapes are put through a series of procedures. They’re cleaned, fully erased, meticulously examined, repackaged, and clearly identified as a tape certified for resale. Best of all, they’re guaranteed for quality and functionality, or we’ll give you your money back.

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LTO-5 cartridges have twice the capacity of LTO-4 tape, holding 1.5 TB native and 3 TB compressed data. The data transfer rate increases from 120 MBps to 140 MBps native, and 240 MBps to 280 MBps compressed. LTO-5 carries over LTO-4 features such as hardware encryption and adds a partitioning functionality that lets applications index data on tape to make it easier to access.

“Partitioning alleviates that ability for search and discovery, and ultimately restore by segmenting out the actual tape cartridge and tape media so you don’t have to spool through the entire tape cartridge,” IDC analyst Robert Amatruda said. “They’re giving it the ability to have a recall restore much more efficiently.”

Bruce Master, senior program manager for IBM Corp. – one of the developers of LTO technology – agrees that partitioning is a key feature for LTO-5. “We feel this will be one of the biggest features users will be interested in,” said Master. “Partitioning allows the user to see what’s on the tape, allowing for faster searches. It also enhances processing.”

LTO-5 has backwards compatible read-and-write capabilities with LTO-4 to make for smooth upgrades. However, LTO-5 only has read capabilities with LTO-3, which could make it a bit trickier to upgrade from older tape systems.

Users of earlier generations of LTO can recycle their old out of archive tapes with recycle your media. Call 949-757-0100 or email brian@recycleyourmedia.com

Shred the data not the tape!

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Don’t shred the tape, shred the data!

Call Recycle Your Media, we buy used tape! 949-757-0100 or email buyback@recycleyourmedia.com

DLTtape S4 Tape Specifications:

Quantum DLT-S4 Part # MR-S4MQN-01

Maxell DLT-S4 Part # 184030

Fuji DLT-S4 Part # 26360000

Sun Storagetek DLT-S4   

As backup and archive environments become more complex, the need for capacity and manageability continues to grow. That’s why the new DLTtape S4 cartridge offers massive capacity and fully leverages the DLTSage Management Suite, giving IT professionals the tools they need to protect, secure and manage their data.

Designed for use with Quantum DLT-S4 drives, the DLTtape S4 cartridge delivers industry-leading 800GB native and 1.6TB compressed storage capacity. Thanks to Quantum’s eMP60 tape technology, this represents the lowest cost-per-gigabyte storage available today.

High capacity without high costs

DLTtape S4 media uses Super PET (S-PET) base film. The S-PET base film assures the strength and durability needed in enterprise-class environments. And the internal cartridge design now offers enhanced durability, making the DLTtape S4 format the highest profile DLT media yet.

Performance

• Capacity (native) 800GB
• Capacity (compressed 1.6TB)
• Drive Compatibility DLT-S4
• Media Compatibility DLTtape S4 (Quantum P/N MR-S4MQN-01)
• Cleaning Tape SDLT Cleaning Tape (Quantum P/N MR-SACCL-01)

Tape Life

• Archive Storage > 30 Years
• Durability  5,000 load/unload/calibrates

Trying to save money on data backups is a topic unto itself. Backing up the same data over and over again wastes both tape and disk, and isn’t wise. If you have a gut feeling that your backups may not be efficient, you should examine how much you spend on backing up data, and ensure that whatever you do spend is spent wisely.

If you send hundreds of tapes offsite each month, take a look at options for eliminating redundancies. Perhaps operating system images or application binaries are backed up more times than needed to restore the environment. Are log files and other types of disposable files being backed up? Be smarter when writing those “exclude” lists and policies. It’s easy to implement and configure a backup solution, but it can be very difficult to configure it efficiently.

You should also consider investing in suitable data deduplication technology. Like thin provisioning, deduplication has the potential to cut down the amount of data that gets backed up. But beware the pitfalls of virtual tape libraries (VTLs), which are nothing but a bunch of disk drives at the back end. When purchased without any deduplication solution, VTLs can be more expensive consumers of energy than older tape libraries. Right sizing your infrastructure should therefore apply to your backup infrastructure in the same way it does to your online storage infrastructure.

An additional way to save on energy consumption, money on your tape media investment and be green at the same time is to use certified tape media. Especially when archiving to tape or data that is being written to tape only once are great ways to save up to 50% on the tape media you are currently buying.

For more information on certified tape and to place an order call 949-757-0100 or email brian@recycleyourmedia.com

(Some of the content in this is from searchsmbstorage.com)

Don’t shred the tape, shred the data!

Call Recycle Your Media, we buy used tape! 949-757-0100 or email buyback@recycleyourmedia.com

Super DLT2 Specifications

SDLT storage media is ideally suited for data centre and departmental backups where capacity, performance and cost are critical. SDLT technology offers up to 160 GB of storage capacity and a 16MB/sec sustained data transfer rate (native mode). 2nd generation Super DLT II 600GB Data Cartridge offers high capacity and low cost per GB for customers with prior investments in DLT backup technology. Super DLTtape II cartridges support DLTSage for improved media and drive diagnostics.

Features & benefits
High-performance: up to 32MB/sec compressed transfer rate.
Comprehensive: read-backwards compatible with DLTtape.
High-capacity: supports capacities up to 320GB.
Reliable: combines the best of proven optical and magnetic technologies to offer users improvements in capacity and performance.
HP SDLT cleaning cartridges: provide 20 cleans.
With 600GB capacity and 72MB/sec transfer rate, HP SDLT II 600GB Data Cartridges offer high capacity and low cost per GB for customers with prior investments in DLT backup technology.
Super DLTtape II uses a new Super PET (S-PET) base film enabling an overall thickness reduction of 10%. This results in a longer tape with more capacity versus a Super DLTtape I cartridge.
Optical servo guide information is coded on the rear of the media, increasing the number of recording tracks on the data-bearing media surface. This enables higher capacity tape cartridges like Super DLT II.

Don’t shred the tape, shred the data!

Recycle Sun T10000 Tape 1/2 in. Cartridge (T10K) 500GB Titanium 003-3827-01 

T10K Specifications:

The Sun StorageTek T10000 tape cartridge, which works in tandem with the Sun StorageTek T10000 tape drive, addresses issues related to data growth, security, manageability, and cost. With 500-gigabyte capacity, the T10000 tape cartridge stores more data in the same footprint. And with 2:1 compression, it can store up to one terabyte of data to help you meet growing data storage requirements. Ultra-high capacity makes the T10000 tape cartridge ideal for high-volume backup, archiving, and disaster recovery applications. The T10000 tape cartridge also increases data security with the Sun StorageTek T10000 SafeGuide system, in which a unique hub lock stabilizes media within the cartridge shell.

Call Recycle Your Media, we buy used tape! 949-757-0100 or email buyback@recycleyourmedia.com