Disk Archive

All about Alto Disk Archive.

ALTO is a disk based archiving technology, but what type of disks do we use? Do we supply them ready installed in our ALTO enclosures, or can you purchase them locally and install them yourself? Can you mix disks from different vendors, with different capacities? On this page we try to answer all your disk-based questions. In short, the answer is simple - ALTO enables you to purchase disks as you need them, with no single vendor lock-in, and the ability to install larger capacity disks as they become available.

ALTO-III, the fully scalable Enterprise Archive has three principal areas of application within a facility for Active Storage, General Purpose Storage and Deep Archive Storage. Customers can use dedicated ALTO systems configured and populated with suitable disks for each functional area or Partitions can be created within a larger ALTO System for each functional area and the Partitions configured as required. ALTO supports mixed drive types and capacities within a single system, so that the choice of disk can be tailored to the performance, capacity and budget for each user. ALTO-ARX is supplied factory populated with General Purpose Disks described below to achieve the target capacity.