The Sony Optical Disc Archive offer the most advanced optical technology on the market, far surpassing previous generations of optical technologies and other products available in the current marketplace. Sony Optical Disc Archive products offer an excellent total cost of ownership, high capacity footprint, and exemplary performance, resultiing in a highly desirable data archiving technology.
Alliance Storage Technologies works closely with Sony as an authorized Sony Optical Disc Archive (ODA) Solutions Partner and fully integrates ODA technology with NETArchive, a leading data archiving solution that ensures your data is secured for years to come.
Sony’s Optical Disc Archive (ODA) provides an excellent technology base for data archiving. Providing fast access for both storing and retrieval of data, and scalable to 2.8 PBytes of nearline data in a single rack, ODA grows with your business. With a product roadmap that has aggressive advancements in storage capacity and performance while providing backward compatibility, customer investments and access to data is future proofed. With a media life of up to 100 years, ODA can help you achieve safe long-term storage for all your archiving needs while keeping archiving costs low.
The Sony ODA Product family consist of multiple components which seamlessly integrate into the NETArchive solution, providing an enterprise class data archiving solution. Click here to learn more about NETArchive.
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Sony's Optical Disc Archive PetaSite scalable library solutions offer easy expandability with a flexible modular design that can be custom configured to meet the storage capacity or performance requirements. Installed in a standard rack (AV rack preferable), the Petasite library can be configured to scale up to 2.8PB of nearline storage capacity. Additionally, Petasite systems can be configured to scale out with up to 18 ODA Optical Drives.
Sony's Enterprise ODA Petasite Libraries can be configured with one to six library units. The ODS-L30M Master Unit is first required. Housing the library controller and robotics, it can be configured with up to 2 ODA Optical Drives and 30 ODA Media Cartridges (158TB). Connectivity for the library and drives is via high speed FibreChannel.
The library can then be scaled by adding optional expansion units. The ODS-L60E provides capacity and performance growth with 61 additional cartridge slots (322TB) and up to 4 ODA optical drives, while the ODS-L100E adds nearline capacity with 101 cartridge slots (533TB).
Installed in a single rack, the ODS-L30M robotics traverse all units installed in the rack. With the library robotics traversing between all installed library units, the ODS-L30M controls all media exchanges between slots and optical drives.
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Sony ODA Optical Drives are available in Fibre Channel and USB 3 connected models. The Fibre Channel drives are the ODS-D77F Generation 1, ODS-D280F Generation 2 and ODS-D380F Generation 3 models, which are only available for installation in Sony ODA Petasite Libraries. The Desktop models (ODS-D77U, ODS-D280U and ODS-D380U) can be connected to standard Windows and Unix / Linux systems for local usage and integrate with the NETArchive Express models.
Sony ODA Optical Drives provide revolutionary performance. This is accomplished with its unique design, employing multiple laser heads and data channels combined with increased rotational speeds.
ODS-D380F (and ODS-D280F) drives utilize 4 lasers with dual pickup heads resulting in 8 data channels. This facilitates simultaneous read and write operations on both sides of the dual sided media. Very high transfer speeds of 1.5 Gbps write (verify on) and 3 Gbps read using ODC-5500R Generation 3 cartridges are achieved.
ODA Generation 1 ODS-D77F drives utilize 2 lasers with dual pickup heads resulting in 4 data channels. Transfer speeds of 440Mbps on write and 1.1Gbps on read are achieved.
For more information on Sony ODA, click on a link below to visit the Sony ODA website.
Sony ODA Optical Media is a professional archive grade storage media providing organizations all over the world a secure medium for the retention of mission critical data. Sony ODA Media is available in both rewriteable and WORM (Write Once Read Many) storage formats. Alliance's NETArchive utilizes WORM Media only, affording the best protection for your assets.
ODA WORM Media is available in 1.5TB capacity (ODC1500R) for the ODS-D77F drive, in 3.3TB capacity (ODC3300R) for the ODS-D280F drive, and in 5.5TB capacity (ODC5500R) for the ODS-D380F drive..
Compliant WORM (Write Once Read Many) media, providing unquestioned record authenticity
Preservation of data without technology refresh migrations for up to 100 years
High-capacity, low-cost
Protects against ransomware, EMP and accidental deletion
Reinforced cartridge design protects media
Cartridge packaging protecting media from human contact
Eliminates the need for special environmental storage conditions
Industry standard UDF multi-volume format
Specifications
NETArchive ODA Media Specifications
Model/Part Number
ODA1 / NA1500WOBARX1
ODA2 / NA3300WOBARX1
ODA3 / NA5500WOBARX1
Nominal Capacity
1.5 TB
3.0 TB
5.28 TB
Access Type
Write Once
Write Once
Write Once
Number of Disc
12
11
11
Capacity of individual Disc
128GB
300GB
500GB
Number of Layers
4
6 (3 per side)
6 (3 per side)
Track Pitch
.32μm
.225μm
.225μm
Recording Technology
Groove
Land & Groove
Land & Groove
Data Bit Length
.0874μm
79.5 nm
51.3 nm
Read Stability
>1,000,000 cycles
>1,000,000 cycles
>1,000,000 cycles
Recording Layer
Phase Change
Phase Change
Phase Change
Blue Violet Laser Wavelength
0.405mm
0.405mm
0.405mm
Read/Write Operation
100% verify after write
100% verify after write
100% verify after write
Media Life
50+ years
100+ years
100+ years
Cartridge Size
5.11” L x 5.19” W x 1.05” H
5.11” L x 5.19” W x 1.05” H
5.11” L x 5.19” W x 1.05” H
Cartridge Weight
11.3 ounces
11.3 ounces
11.3 ounces
Cartridge Material
Reinforced Polycarbonate
Reinforced Polycarbonate
Reinforced Polycarbonate
Certifications
OSTA UDF 2.5 & 2.6, ECMA 167
OSTA UDF 2.5. & 2.6, ECMA 167
OSTA UDF 2.5. & 2.6, ECMA 167
Operating Temperature
50°F to 95°F (10°C to 35°C)
50°F to 95°F (10°C to 35°C)
50°F to 95°F (10°C to 35°C)
Storage Temp & Humidity (short term transportation condition)
Sony's Optical Disc Archive PetaSite scalable library solutions offer easy expandability with a flexible modular design that can be custom configured to meet the storage capacity or performance requirements. Installed in a standard rack (AV rack preferable), the Petasite library can be configured to scale up to 2.8PB of nearline storage capacity. Additionally, Petasite systems can be configured to scale out with up to 18 ODA Optical Drives. 
Sony ODA Optical Drives are available in Fibre Channel and USB 3 connected models. The Fibre Channel drives are the ODS-D77F Generation 1, ODS-D280F Generation 2 and ODS-D380F Generation 3 models, which are only available for installation in Sony ODA Petasite Libraries. The Desktop models (
Sony ODA Optical Drives provide revolutionary performance. This is accomplished with its unique design, employing multiple laser heads and data channels combined with increased rotational speeds.
ODS-D380F (and ODS-D280F) drives utilize 4 lasers with dual pickup heads resulting in 8 data channels. This facilitates simultaneous read and write operations on both sides of the dual sided media. Very high transfer speeds of 1.5 Gbps write (verify on) and 3 Gbps read using ODC-5500R Generation 3 cartridges are achieved.
