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DISC BD Series
Green optical archiving for the 21st century
DISC Blu-safe® - the universal mini archive for everyone

DISC BD Series solves all your archiving issues -  store your financial records, x-ray photographs, law files, document scans, HD videos, CCTV footage etc. for the next 50+ years on a reliable, easy-to-access, flexible and long-life standard media for a reasonable price - with infinite capacity! It's designed to grow with your data base and provide you with an extremely reliable archiving solution on standard media.

The DISC BD Series is a modular design product family using Blu-ray technology with up to 50 Gigabyte (GB) per media, and ensures an economic lifetime of optical standard media with 20 times longer life than backup or archiving on hard disk drives (HDD) or tape, while power consumption is a small fraction of a HDD backup/archive. Our DISC SmartPack™ technology combines hot swap capability with the best protection against scratches, dust, shock, light and x-rays. All DISC BD-Series can be easily integrated into your existing network via a wide range of connectivity options.

Leading the way in green IT

Our BD Series is environmentally friendly with a significant reduction of your IT's carbon footprint, with units taking up less space than a water cooler (35 TB needs only 0,27 sqm). Compared to other archiving technologies, The DISC BD Series is the archiving solution with the lowest energy consumption, offering a safe and sustainable long-term solution for your information.

Scalability

  • Modular design from 2 TB-35 TB
  • Individual configurations
  • Pay as you grow
  • SmartPack™ technology for flexible and infinite capacity

Data security & compatibility

  • Downward compatibility from BD to DVD and CD
  • Extreme reliability and fast access through Blu-ray technology
  • Maintenance-free operation and long-term data integrity for decades
  • Standard components and media

Applications

  • A/V production
  • Archiving & backup
  • Banking
  • Broadcasting & entertainment
  • Education
  • Government
  • Industry
  • Insurance
  • Law enforcement & judiciary
  • Libraries & museums
  • Medical
  • Security

Key features

  • Automated optical media library providing near-line access to 34TB
  • SmartPack™ 15 media pack with "No Touch Tray Technology"
  • Direct attachment to PC Server via SAS Host Interface
  • Built-in diagnostics
  • Redundant power supply
  • Fits 19-inch standard racks and cabinets
  • Wide range of WORM and rewritable media with a transfer rate up to 252 MB/sec. (~21 TB/day!)
  • Engineered and manufactured in Germany
  • Worldwide distribution and support

Connectivity

  • Direct attached via Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
  • Network attach support through NAS and SAN

Software support

  • Support for Windows, Apple Mac, Linux and other platforms via storage management software
  • Connects to virtually any application via file systems or APIs with transparent access to optical libraries
  • Storage management options: HSM, mirroring and read/write cache settings using UDF and other file systems
  • Media can be managed in WORM or rewritable volume sets containing single or multiple physical media with spanning and dynamic expansion options

Configurations

Models DISC1000 BD DISC3000 BD DISC4000 BD DISC7000 BD DISC NA
Amount of drives 2 6 6 2 - 14 2 - 14
Amount of slots 45-105 210 - 270 340 - 400 510 - 690 45 - 2070
Capacity (TB) 2.2 - 5.2 10.5 - 13.5 17-20 25.5 - 34.5 2.2 - 103
Max transfer rate (TB/day) 1.5 - 3 1.5 - 9 1.5 - 9 1.5 - 21 -
Hard disk cache - - - - 400GB - 96TB

Specifications

System Drives Media
Mailslot Media handling Type Formats Characteristics Capacity
Single media load standard SmartPackTM 15 media load with "no touch tray" technology Blu-ray® Disc (BD) BD-ROM
BD-R
BD-RE
CD
DVD
R/W compatible		 120 mm single side, surface hard coated 25 GB
50 GB
100 GB*
200 GB*

RAS

The best values in the industry!

MTBF electronics 120,000 hrs
MLBF drive > 800,000
MSBF low /
mid / enterprise		 library 5,000,000
MTTR library < 20 min
Repair rate PpM < 10

DISC SmartPack™ - the smart way to handle your media

DISC SmartPack™ - smart cartridge based media management

DISC SmartPack™ is the smart way to handle your media for the best protection against accidental damage, dust, shock, light and X-rays. All DISC BareMedia Libraries come with the unique capacity enhancing and intelligent 15 disc off-line media management - the DISC SmartPack™.

The DISC SmartPack™ offers:

  • 15 disc enclosed cartridge - ergonomic enclosed design for easy handling and maximum protection to protect your bare media outside of libraries better than all other forms of cartridge
  • Only 720g
  • Half height design (5,25") for easy handling
  • Steel enclosure
  • Locked trays
  • Secure grip single small hand handling
  • Hot swap file system dependent
  • Worldwide unique serial number
  • Smart memory chip to store and carry SN, name and TOC
  • Bar code label that keeps track of offline media and data
  • Secure handling and shipping of offline media

Smart offline data management