mLogic mTape - Desktop Thunderbolt LTO Tape Drive

$4,899.00

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Desktop Thunderbolt LTO Tape Drives

  • Desktop Thunderbolt LTO Tape Drive certified by Apple & Intel
  • Available with LTO-7, LTO-8 or LTO-9 drives
  • Dual Thunderbolt ports
  • Includes Hedge Canister LTFS app for macOS - a $299 value!
  • Ships complete with cleaning tape and Thunderbolt cable 
            
Drive Type Native Capacity  Performance Tape Compatibility (Read/Write)
LTO-7 6 TB 300 MB/sec (R/W) LTO-6 & LTO-7, (R) LTO-5
LTO-8 12 TB 300 MB/sec (R/W) LTO-7 & LTO-8
LTO-9 18 TB 300 MB/sec (R/W) LTO-8 & LTO-9

Tape made easy. Just connect to Thunderbolt. 

mTape Desktop Thunderbolt LTO Tape Drives enable plug and play archiving of assets to LTO tape via Thunderbolt.  Dead easy. An mLogic first.

LTO tape offers a shelf-life of 30+ years and a reliability level that exceeds what is achievable with spinning disk and solid state drive technology.  mTape is the ultimate archiving solution to safeguard important digital media for the long term.  And LTO tape is not only more reliable than disk, but much more cost effective. 

Hello LTFS. Drag. Drop.

mTape ships with the Hedge Canister LTFS app for macOS - a $299 value!  Canister vastly simplifies working with LTO.  An easy setup, driver assistance and true drag & drop UI makes working with tape a breeze.

Hedge Caniater app for macOS

Canister Features

  • Makes industry standard LTFS tapes
  • True drag & drop archiving/retrieve for macOS
  • Supports archiving to a single LTO or to two LTOs simultaneously
  • xxHash64 verification ensures an exact replica of your source is copied to LTO
  • Catalogs are created for every tape - retrieving files is simple!
  • Catalogs mount as a network drive and are fully searchable by Finder
  • Generates Transfer logs, Media Hash List and Manifests
  • In app Console

Learn more about the Linear Tape File System (LTFS).  

Works with industry leading apps. 

mTape is compatible with industry leading archiving and media management apps for Linux, macOS and Windows.

Easily find archived media with CatDV Pro.

CatDV Pro media asset management (MAM) software indexes and organizes your content to make it searchable, taggable and discoverable. The software extracts metadata and generates thumbnails of each clip. CatDV Pro makes it simple to find content archived to LTO with mTape.

Quantum CatDV interface
Innovative Design. Solid engineering.

The mTape Desktop Thunderbolt LTO Tape Drive features a compact form-factor with robust aluminum construction that is ideal for mobile applications.  And mTape is DC powered enabling the unit to be used in virtually any environment, be it in the studio or a remote location.  

Deployed by content creation professionals.

"mLogic's LTO solutions perfectly compliment Digitalfilm Tree's comprehensive GeoPost data services," said Ramy Katrib, CEO of Digitalfilm Tree. "They were instrumental in safeguarding dailies and archiving completed sequences on Ted Lasso, Shrinking and Bad Monkey.  In fact, they are used on all the shows we do."

"Not only do we use our mLogic LTO solutions for network footage delivery, but we use them to maintain our own in-house project and media archive," said Derek Klein Director of Technology, T Group Productions. For years we had kept double hard drive backups of all of our digital media and projects, spending tens of thousands of dollars in hard drives a year. When we switched to LTO for our backups, our storage costs dropped dramatically, and we gained a much more reliable long-term storage medium. mLogic LTO solutions make it easy to create fast, accurate, and network approved LTO tapes so we always know where our footage is when we need it." 


“Providing an LTO tape drive solution with Thunderbolt connectivity offers creative professionals a high-speed, plug and play solution to securely backup and archive large amounts of digital media," said Jason Ziller, Marketing Director for Thunderbolt, Intel. “mLogic’s mTape with Thunderbolt dramatically simplifies the process of safeguarding content produced in today’s file-based workflows."

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Interface:   2x Thunderbolt ports 
Tape Drive:   LTO-7, LTO-8 or LTO-9, LTFS Compatible, TAA Compliant
System Requirements:   Linux, Mac or Windows PC with Thunderbolt port
Size:   11.5 x 8 x 4"/ 29.2 x 20.3 x 10.2 cm
Weight:   8.75 lb / 4 kg
What's in the Box?   mTape with integrated LTO tape drive
  Universal Cleaning Cartridge
  1 meter Thunderbolt cable
  Universal power adapter
  Hedge Canister license for macOS
Warranty:   3-years