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Jukeboxes
from Kintronics provide secure data storage management that meets
compliance regulations such as Financial (SEC, Sarbanes-Oxley),
Medical (HIPAA, DICOM, PACS), Government (DOD), Legal Admissibility
(ISO-18501 and 18509) and many others.
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Kintronics has a wide selection of CD-ROM/DVD-ROM jukeboxes and optical libraries available, as well as all the software necessary to attach them to your computer and network. They range in size from 100 to 600 discs capacity. NSM Disc, Plasmon and JVC are some of the CD, DVD and optical UDO and Blu-ray Jukeboxes available. They all come with multipurpose Recorder drives or optical drives. If you need to just archive to disc and have infrequent access, take a look at our Archiving Appliances. They cost less.
To help you select the correct product, take a look at the selection chart, application note below, and our technical articles.
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| Plasmon |
UDO: 24 - 638 discs (720GB - 19.1TB) |
Based on high density, blue laser recording technology, UDO (Ultra Density Optical) is one of the 30GB standards for professional archival storage. 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. | ||||||||||||
| JVC | 100, 200, 600 CD/DVD discs (up to 5.6TB) | JVC MC-8000 Series of CD and DVD jukeboxes are available with CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, DVD-R or CD-R drives. These are very versatile jukeboxes. | ||||||||||||
| DISC/NSM | DISC:
Up to 34TB with Blu-ray media NSM: Over 600 DVD disc capacity. |
Select DVD or Blu-ray optical libraries. This complete family of optical jukebox libraries provides a range of flexible libraries with 45 to 690 Blu-ray discs or 145 to over 600 DVD discs capacity. These libraries are available with the right interface and software for many application. | ||||||||||||
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| PowerFIle | 200 disc | DISCONTINUED | ||||||||||||
| Nakamichi | 5 - 140 disc | DISCONTINUED | ||||||||||||
| Kubic | 240 discs | DISCONTINUED | ||||||||||||
| Pioneer |
320, 700 CD/DVD discs | DISCONTINUED | ||||||||||||
| DRM-6324X | 6-disc changer | DISCONTINUED | ||||||||||||
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This application note compares the jukebox, Archiving Appliances, CD Towers and Turbo Servers.
Applications for jukeboxes and libraries:
Note the term jukebox and library are sometimes used interchangeably. We usually use the term jukebox when we are talking about devices that handle DVD and CD discs. The term Library is usually used when the device handles optical media such as UDO or Blu-ray optical media.
A jukebox or optical library is excellent for archiving data to optical or DVD discs. There are three basic types of media to consider - DVD, UDO and Blu-ray. DVD is the historic standard (4GB/disc) while UDO and Blu-ray are new optical disc types. UDO provides 30GB/disc capacity, and Blu-ray supports up to 50GB/disc.
The DVD jukeboxes contain multifunction writers that support a variety of formats such as DVD-R, +R, DVD-RAM, etc. They hold from 100 to over 600 discs. It is important to understand the difference between DVD-R/+R and DVD-RAM. DVD-R/+R is permanent media; you can't erase or change the data once it is written. DVD-RAM can be erased and rewritten.
The Plasmon UDO jukeboxes contain special drives that support both Write Once Read Mostly (WORM) and read/write UDO media, but do not support DVD, CD or Blu-ray discs.
The Blu-ray drives in the Disc NSM jukebox supports CD, DVD, and Blu-ray media but not UDO. There are two types of jukeboxes available, one that includes DVD multi-format drives and supports only CD and DVD type writeable and Read-only discs, and the Blu-ray Library which includes the latest Blu-ray optical drives and supports writing and reading of Blu-ray, DVD and CD media.
Jukeboxes connect to a Windows 2000/3 or Sun UNIX server using special software. Users on the network can copy or drag and drop data to the server which automatically transfers the data to a CD, DVD, UDO or Blu-ray disc in the jukebox.
All the jukeboxes work best when only a few users need to access the discs at the same time. Small jukeboxes have only one or two CD, DVD, UDO or Blu-ray drives, so only one or two users can share the jukebox at the same time. If additional users want to use a new disc, they have to wait for the disc to be swapped by the robotics in the jukebox. This takes from 4 to 9 seconds. Larger jukeboxes have six or more readers, so more users can simultaneously access the different discs at the same time.
There are a number of systems that take advantage of the same robotic mechanisms used in automatic duplicators. With these systems you can archive email data or general data to a stack of discs. This is a batch process where a set of blank discs are placed on a spindle and written one-at-a-time and placed on an output spindle. The discs are stored off-line and can be accessed by reading them back in using the same mechanism.
Speeding up access
If you need to speed up access to the data in the jukebox you can cache some data to your computer's hard drive or use Network Attached Storage.
The following technology is used for accessing CD or DVD discs:
Towers
contain a number of individual CD/DVD-ROM drives. It can be used to
share a small number of discs, and can be used to load discs into your
computer's hard drive. The tower connects to the network (using a thin
server).
The CD/DVD Server is the newest way of making CDs and DVDs available to network users. These systems provide the most cost effective solution for between 20 and 1,000 CD or DVD discs. The TurboPlus tower uses built-in hard drives to hold (or cache) the content of up to 1,000 CDs. You can choose models with CD/DVD-ROM and CD/DVD Recorders.
The downside to a CD/DVD Server is that it takes time to copy the discs to the hard drive. It's very automatic, and easy to do, but still take about 2 minutes to copy each CD. The CD/DVD Server provides an easy to install, multi-protocol direct connection to your 10/100 Base Ethernet network. It attaches to Macintosh, UNIX or MS network (Win NT/2000/2003/XP). The CD/DVD Servers Can be accessed through a web browse or directly on the network.
Point Software connects many different jukebox systems to Windows NT and 2000 servers. CD and DVD recording is integrated to fulfill all archiving, mastering and duplication requirements. The automated recording feature (EAR) for CD-R simplifies the overall recording process dramatically. Due to its multithreaded implementation PoINT Jukebox Manager allows multiple users to access the jukebox simultaneously and to record different data streams to different media in parallel. Disc caching to hard disk improves performance dramatically.
QStar software not only supports Windows servers, it also supports Sun UNIX, Linux, SGI IRIS, HP-UX, IBM AIX and many other UNIX operating systems. The CD/DVD Master product works across the network allowing both System Administrators and privileged clients to harness the power to manage more than just the standalone CD/DVD-R writer. With QStar's CD/DVD Master product, users get the ability to manage hundreds or thousands of CD/DVDs, with ease, through an intuitive GUI and advanced management tools.
K-Par software supports Sun UNIX or Windows servers. Not only does it make it easy to share a jukebox on the network, it also keeps track of media that's removed from the jukebox. This functionality allows the archive to grow infinitely so that your oldest, least accessed files can remain indexed but placed out of the jukebox to allow room for new media.
Smart Storage Sorry, No longer available.
If
you need to add some more hard drive storage to your network, take a
look at the latest Network Attached Storage (NAS)
technology. This is the easiest way to increase hard drive capacity
without effecting your network server.
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