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Plasmon UDO
UDO has been installed with thousands of organizations worldwide across a wide range of industries including banks, insurance companies, healthcare providers, manufacturers, television and radio broadcasters, retailers, law enforcement, military and government agencies.
Professional Archival Storage
G-Series libraries Powered by UDO are the market leader in 5.25 inch optical automation and are the backbone of the archival storage strategy for corporations and government agencies worldwide. Supported by more than 40 Independent Software Vendors, G-Series libraries are used in archive applications that include, Electronic Content Management (ECM), Document Imaging, Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM), and Information Lifecycle Management (ILM). Thousands of Plasmon libraries have been installed in banks, insurance companies, healthcare providers, manufacturers, television and radio broadcasters, retailers, law enforcement, military and government agencies.
Designed to ensure investment protection through backward compatibility, all G-Series libraries support both 30GB UDO (Ultra Density Optical) and previous generation MO (Magneto Optical) storage technologies within the same library. State-of-the-art features such as dual picker, barcode reader, hot/warm swappable drives, redundant power supplies and the highest duty cycles in the industry combine to provide maximum performance and minimum downtime.
With a comprehensive product family that accommodates archive requirements from workgroup to enterprise, the G-Series family offers Entry Level, Midrange and Enterprise configurations from 720GB to over 19TB of archival storage capacity. G-Series libraries Powered by UDO provide dramatically greater archive capacities than previous generation products, delivering rapid access to large data archives with a very low Total Cost of Ownership.
G-Series UDO Libraries
| Model: | Gx24 | Gx32 | Gx80 | Gx134 | Gx174 | G164 | G238 | G438 | G638 |
| Max Capacity-UDO | 720GB | 960GB | 2.4TB | 4TB | 5.2TB | 4.9TB | 7.1TB | 13.1TB | 19.1TB |
| Number of slots | 24 | 32 | 72/80 | 134 | 166/174 | 164 | 238 | 438 | 638 |
| Max Drive Count | 2 | 2 | 4/2 | 4 | 4/2 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| Avg Exchange Time (sec) | 6.1 | 6.1 | 6.1 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 6.1 | 6.2 | 6.3 | 6.4 |
| Picker type | dual | dual | dual | dual | dual | dual | dual | dual | dual |
| Library interface | LVD / SE Auto Sensing |
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UDO Media
UDO features blue laser technology to achieve far greater data densities, resulting in dramatically higher media capacities. First generation UDO media has a capacity of 30GB, with a roadmap extending to 60GB and 120GB in future generations. UDO media is available in Write Once (True Write Once and Compliant Write Once) and Rewritable media formats. Each of the three media types has its own physical and operational properties making it well suited for different service levels within an overall archive strategy. Since UDO drives and Plasmon optical libraries support all media types, organizations can match the media format with the specific demands of each document class.
UDO media uses a patented and field-proven Phase Change recording technology that produces a very stable recording surface with a media life in excess of 50 years. Since it is a non-contact, non-magnetic recording process, data written on UDO media does not degrade with use, tolerates a wide range of temperature and humidity conditions and is insensitive to magnetic field exposure.
- UDO Media Specifications Summary Media Capacity 30GB (Double Sided)
- Sector Size 8KB
- Cartridge Size 5.25 inch
- Recording Layer Phase Change
- Media Life 50+ years
- Rewrite Cycles 10,000 (Rewritable media)
- Certification ISO/IEC 17345, ECMA-3
