November marks the second anniversary of the launch of Spectra Logic’s flagship product and the world’s highest capacity storage system: the Spectra TFinity tape library.
As with any 2 year-old, significant growth has occurred in a short amount of time. Since TFinity’s launch in November 2009, library development has included growing from:
- 25 frames in a single library to 40 frames
- 30,520 LTO tapes to 50,100 tapes in a single library
- 4 libraries in a complex to 8 libraries in a complex
- 122,000+ LTO tapes in a single complex to 400,800 LTO tapes in a complex
- LTO tape technology exclusively to including industry leading TS1140 Technology tape drives as well
- 183 PB in a complex to 3.6 EB in a complex using TS1140 Technology
In addition to the physical growth, the library has also added next generation servers and software to better support a variety of features and enhancements that include:
- Data Integrity Verification to preserve data viability and integrity – particularly in archives
- Continually increasing robotics performance
- Expanded MLM database capacity
- XML API
And while this growth has progressed, TFinity has continued to provide the industry’s best:
- Library density
- Power efficiency
- Library management – including built-in encryption key management
- Product reliability
It’s been an impressive couple of years since TFinity was introduced to the world. Watch and see what happens during the next 2 years. Happy Birthday, TFinity!