Archiving Media - Optical Media Meets Professional Archive Solution Requirements
Professional Archive Solutions utilizing Optical Media Storage meet these requirements. Alliance Storage Technologies, Inc. (Alliance) Archive Product Solutions , utilizing optical media , are specifically designed for these professional and legal data archive requirements. Ultra Density Optical media (UDO media) provides absolute data authenticity for regulatory compliance or any other application where archived data must remain intact and permanently unchanged.
Optical archive media provides the most secure technology for archiving data. The following table provides a comparison of optical archive media to other storage media.
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Requirement |
Optical UDO Media |
Tape |
RAID (HDD) |
|
True Write Once |
True Immutable WORM |
Firmware enforced WORM |
Software enforced WORM |
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Longevity |
50+ year media life |
7 to 10 year life |
3 to 5 year life |
|
Disaster Recovery |
Removable low cost offsite DR support |
Removable low cost offsite DR support |
Not removable, requires separate backup solution |
|
Access to Data |
High-speed, random access |
Sequential access |
High-speed random |
|
Cost of Ownership |
Low long-term cost |
Low long-term cost |
High long-term cost |
| Technology | Phase change optical/ Extremely reliable data life | Magnetic / susceptible to magnetic fields, heat, humidity, breakage & tensioning issues | Magnetic / low reliability; susceptible to magnetic fields, mechanical failures, power surges |
