Panasonic LB-DH8 Series Blu-ray data archiver

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Panasonic has launched the LB-DH8 Series, which are Blu-ray data archivers designed to extend the lifespan of stored data by up to 40 years to lower the cost of high-capacity storage.

The series serves as an optical disk-based data archival solution to address growing demands for active and long-term archival storage, suitable for organisations that deal with high data volumes. It is also suitable for small and medium enterprises that may not have the resources or data volume to justify investing in on-premises archival solutions but can benefit from Blu-ray archival technology.

Data archives are currently stored on either hard disk drive (HDD) or tape-based solutions — technologies that tend to have relatively short life spans and high energy requirements, which also lead to increased operating costs. The Blu-ray data archiver series is designed to provide data storage that lasts five to 10 times longer by comparison. The models are energy efficient, due to requiring less power, and also offer a lower per-bit cost. Blu-ray archival storage is also a WORM (write once read many) medium, which makes it tamper-proof and suitable for compliance.