![]() ![]() This design allows customers to scale up data storage, only marginally impacting the total system power. The Base Unit and the Robotic Unit draw power but all of the additional Expansion Units draw miniscule power to keep the sensors and air filters running. Alternatively a tape drive interface lets customers easily transition from tape library to optical library.Įnergy efficiency is an issue facing many enterprises today, and Everspan tackles this with one of the most efficient power/storage ratios in the industry. For those who prefer to create their own direct interface, Sony delivers an optical drive interface that leverages the Sony MMC-6 SCSI multimedia command set. With these options, redundancy is provided through erasure coding. Everspan software support includes the S3 object store as well as file system support. This performance level is especially important when dealing with loading or restoring data as well as handling requests for unstructured or random data.Įverspan is designed with industry-standard system interfaces to help customers easily integrate it into their existing applications and environments. It is able to transfer almost 18 GB of data per second, outpacing the best performance of tape libraries and archival drive platforms. To give a sense of scale, if you were to envision one bit of data as the equivalent to one second, then 1PB is the equivalent of 285 million years.Įverspan utilizes fully automated robotics, providing both high speed and efficiency between the stored media and optical drives. Up to four systems can be connected in a single system, giving access to an astounding 724PB of total addressable storage. Everspan has the ability to store an enormous 181 PB (Petabytes) of archival data. Up to 64 Sony optical array drives can be incorporated into the system, each of which has an average transfer rate of 280 MB/s. Capacity can be easily increased by adding Expansion Units, which require a nominal increase in power consumption, and cooling requirements. It is our goal to make it possible for customers to store everything for as long as they wish in a low-touch, low-cost optical library.Įverspan is comprised of three units: the Base Unit, the Robotic Unit, and up to 14 Expansion Units. "In a world where customers have been frequently forced into deciding which data to retain based on the ongoing cost of archiving, Everspan provides a welcome and affordable solution. "We believe that Everspan addresses a large and rapidly growing need in the storage marketplace," said Frank Frankovsky, CEO of Sony Optical Archive Inc. Everspan also provides speed and efficiency with a vastly reduced environmental impact. Because of the durability of optical discs, unlike other storage media, users are expected to never need to migrate data and Sony is offering 100 year warranty for optical media. Unlike tape or hard disk drives which need to be refreshed/replaced every 5-7 years, the Archival Disc can support data storage for over 100 years in data center environments. ![]() The Archival disc media will be used in future Optical Disc Archive Media to achieve at least 6TB of storage.NEW YORK, Ma/PRNewswire/ - Sony Optical Archive Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony, today unveiled the Everspan Library System (Everspan), a scalable optical library system solution that delivers archiving capabilities far exceeding the capacity of what is available in the marketplace today, at a fraction of the cost.Įverspan utilizes Sony's 300 GB Archival Disc to store data. Sony Corporation and Panasonic Corporation on announced on 10 March 2014 their cooperation in producing a new media trademarked as Archival disc. Generation 3 increased the cartridge capacity to 5.5TB, the read speed to 375MB/s and the write speed (with verification on) to 187.5MB/s. Generation 3 of the Optical Disc Archive technology was announced for early-2020 release. In 2020, the third generation of cartridges that has more storage capacity was launched. The technology was publicly announced on 16 April 2012 during the NAB Show with the first units shipping in February 2013. The latest version of the cartridge, that has a total capacity of about 5.5TB, uses discs that hold about 500GB each. Each of the internal optical discs is similar to, but not compatible with, a Blu-ray disc. It uses removable cartridges, where each cartridge holds 11 optical discs. Optical Disc Archive is a proprietary storage technology that was introduced by Sony.
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