OWC Thunderbolt (40Gb/s) LTO-9 Tape Storage/Archiving Solution with 16.0TB Onboard Storage

Preserve Huge Volumes of Data

M&E professionals, corporations, government branches, and small businesses are all facing the same challenge: how to manage an ever-increasing amount of more complex data. Higher resolution, complex audio, and diverse formats are the project norm. Organizational content is projected to grow 50-70% annually as more data is digitalized. Licensing, regulatory, and compliance requirements are becoming more stringent.

The OWC Apriceless convenience of familiarity in using the OWC Archive Pro to protect your data. By using archiving industry standard Linear Tape Open (LTO) tapes formatted with the Linear Tape File System (LTFS), the tapes can be accessed on your computer just like a hard drive or SSD. Files appear in folders and moving them to/retrieving them from tape is drag and drop easy. And compatibility has never been more simple...thanks to LTFS, LTO tapes can be read from a system running macOS, Windows, or Linux, so there's no extra software to buy or proprietary solution.

Configurable

Add up to a 16TB SSD in the universal 2.5/3.5-inch drive expansion bay

Expansive

Utilize the second Thunderbolt (USB-C) port to add up to five additional Thunderbolt devices, or your choice of a USB-C or DisplayPort device

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DisplayPort 1.4 for connecting up to an 8K display

Charge While Working

85W of notebook charging

Transportable

Compact form factor with built in handles for moving between set and studio

Easy

Drag, drop, and retrieve files with included Hedge Canister archiving app...a $399 value!

Complete

Includes LTO data tape, cleaning tape, and Thunderbolt cable

Worry-Free

Up to 3 Year OWC Limited Warranty with expert support

Archiving Made Drag & Drop Easy

There's a priceless convenience of familiarity in using the OWC Archive Pro to protect your data. By using archiving industry standard Linear Tape Open (LTO) tapes formatted with the Linear Tape File System (LTFS), the tapes can be accessed on your computer just like a hard drive or SSD. Files appear in folders and moving them to/retrieving them from tape is drag and drop easy. And compatibility has never been more simple...thanks to LTFS, LTO tapes can be read from a system running macOS, Windows, or Linux, so there's no extra software to buy or proprietary hardware concerns.

Advanced Yet Future-Ready

Because LTFS is an open, cross-platform system, and LTO tape is the dominant archiving medium that has continued to advance since being introduced in 2000, you can be confident knowing you'll be able to access your data with any brand of LTO hardware for decades to come. The Archive Pro uses the latest LTO-7, LTO-8, or LTO-9 tapes.

Experience up to 55% Lower TCO

Compared to using hard drives for archival storage, the OWC Archive Pro offers an instant ROI, and pays for itself in no time by continually and dramatically lowering project and production costs.

Expected Lifespan of Storage in Years

A 10-year Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Study performed by the Enterprise Strategy Group comparing the costs of long-term storage on disk, LTO tape, and cloud had a staggering revelation. It concluded that LTO tape-based archiving offers a 577% ROI - the highest among all media types!! That's because LTO-tape offers the lowest cost per TB storage format combined with the longest life expectancy among all storage options.