Idealstor Releases 2TB SATA Disks

April 7, 2009: Disk-to-disk storage provider Idealstor has announced the release of its latest line of removable disk backup systems, bumping storage capacity up to the new industry watermark of 2TB.

The new drive can be used with any Idealstor backup system, and offers a 500GB increase in storage space per removable drive bay from previously available capacities.

Idealstor removable disk backup systems are designed to replace or augment tape backup, and range in capacity from one removable drive bay up to eight. With this in mind, this 2TB SATA disk brings the capacity of each Idealstor backup system up to a total of 16TB.

The company says that unlike most disk to disk backup systems on the market today that are designed for storing data like NAS, SAN or RAID systems, Idealstor uses a combination of hardware and software to make the disks ejectable so they can be used for offsite storage of data and for disaster recovery.

The drives use non-proprietary 3.5” SATA2 drives as backup media, keeping the total cost of ownership down and enabling companies with existing hardware to simply purchase larger disks as their data increases to expand the size of their system.

“The 2TB disk media further extends our capacity advantage over or main competition which is tape,” said Nandan Arora, chief technology officer at Idealstor. “This new size disk means that our entry level product that competes head to head with technologies such as LTO-3 and LTO-4, the Teralyte, has a capacity of 2TB per removable drive bay without compression.”

Arora claims that the system offers much lower costs than comparable tape systems, while providing larger capacities, faster transfer rates and better reliability.

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