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XenData Launches
X2500-USB System

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t NAB, XenData will show its
X2500-USB LTO-6 archive system
that connects to notebooks and
workstations via USB 3.0.
The system includes an external
LTO-6 drive and XenData6 Workstation
management software, and is ideal for
storing video, audio and image ﬁles on
high capacity LTO cartridges.
The XenData6 Workstation software
runs on 64-bit Windows 7 and Windows
8.1, and for Mac users, the system is
compatible with both Boot Camp and
VM Fusion. The XenData6 Workstation
software allows all ﬁle archive and
restore operations to be made via copy
and paste or drag and drop.
The system is also compatible
with 2.5 TB LTO-6 and 1.5 TB LTO-5
cartridges and saves ﬁles to LTO using
either LTFS or TAR industry standard
formats.
When formatting an individual LTO
cartridge, the administrator needs
only select either TAR or LTFS to deﬁne

how ﬁles are written within that LTO
cartridge.
"With the launch of the X2500-USB,
we can combine the convenience of
USB connectivity with the integrity
that comes with advanced logical
block protection techniques," said Phil
Storey, XenData CEO. "In addition to
leveraging advanced technology, we
focused on ease of use by introducing
the familiar drag and drop operations
our customers are accustomed to
across the rest of our product range."
The external LTO-6 drive is compact
with a height of less than 2.4 inches
(60 mm) and includes USB 3.0
technology from UNITEX Corporation
that provides fast ﬁle transfers up
to 140 MB/s for both writing to and
reading from LTO.
The X2500-USB system veriﬁes data
written to LTO in real-time using endto-end logical block protection (LBP).
The XenData6 Workstation software
calculates and inserts a CRC value at

XenData's X2500-USB
LTO-6 archive system

the end of each logical block of data to
be written to LTO.
This is compared in real-time with
the CRC value determined by the readafter-write head within the LTO-6 USB
drive to ensure that ﬁles are written
without corruption.
LBP helps expedite archiving
because it provides assured data
integrity without the need to perform
another read operation.
When restoring ﬁles, the system
reads ﬁles from LTO in tape order -
improving overall transfer times.
The system is also capable of
managing an unlimited number of

externalised LTO cartridges, allowing
users to easily browse and search the
content accordingly. Restoring ﬁles
is as simple as inserting the required
cartridge in the LTO drive, and then
using Windows Explorer to drag and
drop or copy and paste.
The system supports all ﬁle types.
Applications for the X2500-USB
include ofﬂoading ﬁles from camera
storage such as P2 cards and XDCAM
to LTO; secure storage of video, audio
and image ﬁles on LTO; as well as
scientiﬁc and engineering applications.
X2500-USB
product
shipments
started March 2015.

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