User Guide: XenData X1500 LTO-5 Archive System
4
1. Overview
1.1 X1500 Contents
The X1500 is an LTO-5 digital archive system for installation on a Windows 7 workstation. The X1500
contains the following items.
HP LTO-5 tape drive in an external enclosure with a SAS interface
X1500 CD with documentation and XenData6 Workstation software
Dual port SAS Card - for insertion in the computer's PCI Express slot
2m SAS cable - to connect the tape drive to the SAS card
LTO Cleaning Cartridge
1.2 About LTO
Linear Tape Open (LTO) is the leading data tape format and uses technology developed by HP, IBM and
Quantum Corporation. The latest generation of LTO is LTO-5 which provides high storage capacity, high
speed file transfers and a long archival data life:
Huge storage capacity
Each LTO-5 tape cartridge stores 1.5 TB without any compression. For video
files, this represents over 65 hours at a 50 Mbits/s recording rate.
