Disk-To-Disk Benefits At No Extra Cost

Idealstor is capable of data at sustained transfer rates of 300MB/s whereas the fastest tape drives today only offer high transfer rates using streaming. The big difference is that disk does not need to be streamed, making it ideal for typically slow backups like incremental backups, transaction log backups and backups of clients on slow networks. In addition, since disk’s access time is in milliseconds restores are much faster.

Does the phrase “Backup failed, clean tape drive” sound familiar? Ever experienced a spool of tape being stuck and ruining your tape drive? Tape drives and media frequently fail, magnetic tapes are susceptible to the oxide flaking off after a period of time. According to one of the largest tape library manufacturers tape drives mounted in a tape library have an annual failure rate of 60%. Idealstor uses inexpensive ATA disks which have an annual failure rate of less than 0.8%.

Idealstor allows you to use different sizes of disks in any of our bays to allow you to cater your backup to your specific data needs. In addition, you can use any 3rd party software or hardware with our solutions.

With a starting capacity point of 40GB it can scale to 1TB native per disk with a maximum of 8 disks in a system effectively giving you a capacity of 6.0TB without using compression.. With additional advancement in technology from drive manufacturers this should scale up even more as larger disks are manufactured.

Unlike tape libraries, Idealstor does not have any robotic arms nor needs calibration reducing the need for maintenance. Idealstor uses disk media that does not require the media to be retensioned or replaced annually.

Idealstor runs on Windows 2003 Server, the Operating System of choice for most administrators. Just a click of the mouse button and turn of a key is all you need, unlike tape libraries that require a learning curve and constant attention.

Idealstor uses disks like tape and makes them easily portable for off-site storage.

Idealstor hardware works with most of the leading backup software that backup to disk protecting your current investment in backup software. In addition, Ibac software works with our hardware or any third party Windows server.