mRack DIT- 1U Rack-Mountable Thunderbolt LTO & Disk Storage
1U Rack-Mountable Thunderbolt LTO & 4-Bay Disk Storage
- 1U Rack-Mountable Thunderbolt LTO & Disk Storage solution
- Available with LTO-7, LTO-8 or LTO-9 drives
- 4-Bay enclosure supports 2.5" hard drives or SSDs (add your own drives)
- Dual Thunderbolt ports
- Ideal for desktop use or for mounting in standard 19” racks or DIT carts
- Includes Hedge Canister LTFS archiving app for macOS - a $299 value!
- Includes Hedge Offshoot media management app - a $149 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 |
Onboard Storage and LTO. The Perfect Combo.
mRack DIT - 1U Rack-Mountable Thunderbolt LTO & Disk Storage is a hybrid solution designed to support today's digital workflows. Copy media from camera cards and other sources to the onboard storage for online editing. Then archive the raw footage and completed projects to LTO tape to safeguard the media for the long term. LTO has a shelf life of 30+ years and is the most cost-effective storage medium on a cost per TB basis.
Tape made easy. Just connect to Thunderbolt.
mRack 1U Thunderbolt LTO Tape Drive enable plug and play archiving of digital media 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. mRack 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.
mRack ships with Hedge Canister - a $299 value! Canister is a simple drag & drop Linear Tape File System (LTFS) archiving and retrieve app for macOS.
Canister Features
- Makes industry standard LTFS tapes
- True drag & drop archiving/retrieve for macOS (Big Sur compatible)
- 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.
The mRack Rack Mountable Thunderbolt LTO Tape Drive is compatible with industry leading LTO archiving and media management software for macOS and Windows including:
- Archiware
- Canister (included for macOS)
- CatDV
- Free LTFS utilities for macOS, Linux & WIndows
- myLTO/Preroll Post
- Retrospect
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 mRack.
4-Bay Removable Drive Enclosure for Media Offload and Online Editing.
Add up to four of your favorite hard drives or SSDs. mRack DIT supports drives up to 15 mm in height. Drives can be easily set up as a JBOD or as a RAID 0 or RAID 1 using the macOS RAID Assistant.
Includes Hedge Offshoot App.
mRack DIT ships with Hedge Offshoot - a $149 value! - The industry's de-facto standard for creating copies, backups and archives of media. Offshoot will securely offload media to mRack DITs onboard storage. Built with video workflows in mind, Offshoot performs verified transfers using checksums for piece of mind before you reformat those camera cards...
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."
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| Interface: | 2x Thunderbolt ports |
| Tape Drive: | Single LTO-7, LTO-8 or LTO-9 drive, LTFS Compatible, TAA Compliant |
| Storage: |
4-Bay Storage Enclosure for 2.5" HDDs or SSDs |
| System Requirements: | Linux, Mac or Windows PC with Thunderbolt port |
| Size: | 19 x 16.5 x 1.75"/ 48.3 x 41.9 x 4.45 cm |
| Weight: |
18 lb / 7.25 kg |
| What's in the Box? |
mRack DIT with LTO & 4-bay disk storage enclosure |
| Warranty: | 3-years |