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DST Extensions Scalability for DST 714/914
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“Mass Transit” for the Storage Industry
New library extensions provide almost unlimited storage capacity

Technology

The ideal archiving storage system would allow expandability both near and long-term, and would eliminate obsolescence of your storage system.
 
Ampex has created the perfect archiving solution, the
DST 714 and DST 914 scalable automated cartridge library systems.

Now, with the introduction of library extension units, the system provides almost unlimited archival storage capacity.

Ampex has developed a robotic rail transfer system that allows you to cluster terabytes of data in a very small footprint.

The extensions can be set up with either a short or long transfer rail, giving you a system that not only meets your current needs, but can be easily expanded to meet your future needs as well.
 
Capacities up to 46.4 terabytes are possible in a four-unit configuration and the addition of extra drives will dramatically increase I/O capability.

Add multiple-cluster configurations and you are looking at an archiving system with almost unlimited capacity. 

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The short transfer rail allows you to add up to two library extensions to your existing library and additional drives may be added to either the existing library or to one of the extension units.

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The long transfer rail allows configuration of three or four units.
 

Multiple clusters
of libraries and extensions create almost unlimited capacity.

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Features

Library Extension Units:

 Rail transfer system allows you to cluster terabytes of data in a very small footprint.

Easily expands to meet future storage demands

Up to 34.4 TB with short transfer rail.

Up to 46.4 TB with long transfer rail.

 With multiple clusters of libraries and extensions you can create an almost unlimited capacity.

 I/O throughput can be dramatically increased by adding additional drives.


Each
DST 714 / 914 Cabinet:

up to 11.6 TB in only 7.5 square feet of floor space - DST 714

up to 23.2 TB in only 8 square feet of floor space - DST 914

One or two DST drives, each with 20MB/sec independent Ultra-SCSI data paths

Robotic performance of 400 cartridge exchanges per hour

Average access time to any file of 20 seconds