The Center uses Qualstar’s XLS 820500 Enterprise Library System with 1,340 cartridge slots, sixteen LTO 4 fibre channel tape drives, stores over 1 Petabyte of uncompressed data and can transfer almost 7 TB of information per hour, enabling the Center to hit their backup windows, reduce floor space and the amount of tape handling by people and robotics.

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“The XLS initially appealed to me based on the price of the library and the cost of maintenance. I knew the system would last me for a while. I also know it is easy to expand if I ever need to do so.”

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A Qualstar TLS-6430 multi-drive library was selected with SDLT drives and a capacity to handle 30 tapes at a time.

NAU replaced a Quantum P7000 library, equipped with twelve SDLT tape drives and 700 slots, with a more efficient Qualstar XLS-812300 system. Also instead of using eight drives with 700 slots, the Qualstar library provided both faster performance and much more capacity using just four LTO 4 drives and 300 slots.

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Consolidating several outdated backup systems into one XLS increased capacity, reduced floorspace, significantly cut power consumption and reduced administration costs at the University of Delaware's main computing center.

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