OWC Archive Pro LTO-8 Thunderbolt Tape Storage/Archiving Solution with 1.0TB Onboard SSD Storage + ArGest Backup Software

Preserve Huge Volumes of Data
M&E professionals, corporations, government branches, and small businesses are all facing the same challenge: how to manage an ever-increasing amount of more complex data. Higher resolution, complex audio, and diverse formats are the project norm. Organizational content is projected to grow 50-70% annually as more data is digitalized. Licensing, regulatory, and compliance requirements are becoming more stringent.

The OWC Archive Pro is the answer to this challenge. This easily integrated tape backup and archiving solution is a mission-critical requirement for protecting and preserving huge volumes of data for longer periods with familiar drag-and-drop operation, and better economies of scale than disk-based storage. Ruggedly small with a built-in handle, the Archive Pro is able to go on-set or move among studio, department, or office computers for a shared data protection solution.

Archiving Made Drag and Drop Easy
There's a priceless convenience of familiarity in using the OWC Archive Pro to protect your data. By using archiving industry standard Linear Tape Open (LTO) tapes formatted with the Linear Tape File System (LTFS), the tapes can be accessed on your computer just like a hard drive or SSD. Files appear in folders and moving them to and from tape is drag-and-drop easy. Compatibility has never been simpler. Thanks to LTFS, LTO tapes can be read from a Mac, PC, or Linux system so there's no extra software to buy or proprietary hardware concerns.

Powered by OWC ArGest® Backup
Whether you’re running a small business or you’re a M&E pro, ArGest Backup is the perfect software to manage your LTO backup and archival collection. With a simple drag-and-drop interface and true cross-platform restorability in all archive formats, ArGest Backup is built to keep your data protected and accessible today and tomorrow.
Easy and familiar: backup and archive folders, files, or session files with drag-and-drop simplicity in major applications
Fastest: full LTO tape speeds for quick backup and recovery
Flexible: verify archives at any time on macOS, Windows, or Linux
Diverse: can be used to backup to portable USB or Thunderbolt drives, removable disk storage such as RDX and Lyve Mobile™, local cloud storage, and tape media
Reliable Recovery: restore maximum possible data, even with a missing or damaged tape in a multiple tape archive
Fully auditable: Check media status any time, even on a different system or OS with ANYTIME Verify™
Efficient: create two identical tapes in a single backup or archive operation with Doubler Archival Mode™
Manage: automatically creates organized tape catalogs for fast searching and restore access time
Complete: after archive is complete, create a self-contained CD/DVD/USB or network key with all components required files to restore on a non-BRU system
Diagnose: built-in functions for checking and reporting LTO equipment operational status during all backup and restore operations
Risk-free: 30-day free trial of full featured, fully functional demo
All of these features and power backed by OWC's support and software teams.
With unmatched speeds, air-tight verification, and system and hardware error detection and recovery, there is simply no other backup solution that can protect your assets as completely and as reliably as ArGest Backup.

Instant ROI
Compared to using hard drives for archival storage, the OWC Archive Pro offers an instant ROI, and pays for itself in no time by continually and dramatically lowering project and production costs.
120TB of Footage Data from One Action Movie Shot
-10 x 12TB HDDs @ $300/drive = $3000
-10 x 12TB LTO-8s @$135/tape = $1350 (55% lower cost)
-20 x 6TB HDDs @ $120/drive = $2400
-20 x 6TB LTO-7s @$56/tape = $1120 (53% lower cost)
That's over 50% savings vs HDD-based archive storage on just one project!

Lower Lifetime Costs with Far Greater Life Expectancy
A 10-year Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Study performed by the Enterprise Strategy Group comparing the costs of long-term storage on disk, LTO tape, and cloud had a staggering revelation. LTO tape-based archiving offers a 577% ROI! That's because LTO-tape offers the lowest cost per TB storage format combined with the longest life expectancy among all storage options.

Meets Stringent Regulations
Whether you need to keep sensitive data secure during transportation, or ensure irreplaceable data will be archive protected, the OWC Archive Pro enables healthcare, financial, and related industries to meet strict legal and regulatory procedures for data confidentiality and integrity. By using a WORM (Write Once, Ready Many) LTO tape, you can store your data in a non-erasable, non-rewritable format to prevent accidental overwrite or malicious data alteration.

The Perfect Solution for A Variety of Industries
LTO Tape archiving is used by a wide variety of industries for diverse needs:
- Anyone seeking offsite data storage that is separated from the read/write host.
- Businesses desiring database and content backup protection against ransomware, cyber-attacks, and operations disruption due to natural disasters.
- Local/State/Federal Government agencies with ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance) workflows; video and files related to law/ordinance passage and day-to-day operations.
- Healthcare providers and organizations with medical records and imaging data.
- Educational institutions needing to keep a myriad of data - including research - produced by students, teachers, and professors accessibly protected while freeing up more costly storage options for short term use and backup.
- Video surveillance operations with increasing number of higher resolution colorized cameras
- Motion Picture industry production companies needing to meet bondable and insurable archive requirements
- Digital media companies can free up production disk capacity and shorten production windows by reusing and editing existing footage for new productions.

Simple Workflow Integration and Expansion
The Archive Pro enables you to archive data seamlessly in your workflow via the included Thunderbolt cable connected to your Mac or PC. You can also optionally enhance your workflow by:
- add up to a 16TB SSD to the 2.5/3.5-inch drive expansion bay for extra storage and backup capacity
- connecting a USB 3.0, USB-C, or Thunderbolt 3 device to the Archive Pro's second Thunderbolt 3 port for added functionalities
- adding a second display with up to 8K resolution via the DisplayPort 1.4 interface2
- keeping your notebook charged with the 85W Thunderbolt 3 port3