Sony ODC-3300R 3.3TB Write-Once Optical Disc Cartridge

Sony optical disc cartridges are designed and manufactured to extremely high specifications, offering very fast random access to all content and files. The innovative drive design provides for a “dual channel” capability. Being file format independent, the cartridge can store your assets in a data file format. The system is ideal for a wide range of deep archive requirements as well as near-online news and sports clips that require fast and random access to any files on the disc. Optical disc complements and co-exists in an established data tape archive strategy.

The Sony ODA system is ideal for deep archive to achieve long-term archive requirements, such as broadcast archives, where data tape does not provide the assurance or meet the need for write-once, long-term archive requirements. It provides second copy archive at a remote site and is ideal for business continuity/disaster recovery, post house and production backup and for video, film and stock footage archives or national archives. The system can also be used for news and sports clips that need to be near-online and as an online browse and proxy clip store.

Optical disc media is robust and reliable with a very long shelf life, offering a guaranteed 50+ years archive life. The optical disc cartridge is resilient to temperature extremes, humidity, dust and water.

There are no backwards compatibility issues and no second-generation media migration is necessary, as the optical disc cartridge will maintain backwards read compatibility with future optical disc drives.

Files are written as data and any kind of data format can be archived for increased flexibility. Furthermore, the system is UDF compatible.

Optical disc cartridges significantly reduce total cost of ownership over their extended archive life because of their minimal environmental storage demands.

Basic metadata can be stored on the Cartridge Memory to make it easier to locate data files.

Using an IT file data structure means data files can be accessed directly and randomly for flexibility and faster search capabilities. This function offers significant speed benefits over LTO tape for accessing short clips and allows the ODA system to work as near-line archive for production systems, as well as deep archive for the long term.