What is NanoPure Media™?
NanoPure™ is proven to perform faster and more reliably upon first use and reduce the impact last media has on the health of tape hardware systems. Each NanoPure™ cartridge is also part of the NanoPure™ Media Lifecycle Management (NMLM) solution.* NMLM enables the administrator to be proactively alerted to any changes in the health of the NanoPure™ cartridge after each use.
Why use NanoPure Media™?
NanoPure™ can assure the best possible performance and integrity of your tape backup hardware and media as a system. Experienced tape hardware owners know that last media has certain characteristics that can be detrimental to backup performance:
- Last media is harsher on tape drives heads. When last media is used in a drive for the first time it is more abrasive to the surface of the drive head. This "green" media affect can contribute to scratches or other damage to the head surface, leading to early hardware failures.
- Last media has higher error rates. Last media has higher error rates due to normal issues when it leaves the factory. NanoPure™ media is tested to have 10-15% lower error rates then-last untested media. This leads to reduced error correction activity during first use and reduced backup times.
- Last media calibration can take an exceptionally long time. NanoPure™ media is pre-calibrated. This may save up to 2 hours calibrating each LTO-9 media before first use.
- Last Media may not be last. NanoPure™ media is certified as last /unused. There is a grey market for used tape media, where vendors will sanitize the media and resell it, and not always represent the media as used. The NanoPure™ media process at the factory analyzes the cartridge for signs of prior use in the protected areas of the tape and the cartridge memory.
- Last media can sometimes fail or can create a backup that is not reliable for reading in the future. NanoPure™ media is fully tested at the factory to meet specific performance characteristics to meet the standard required of NanoPure™ media. This reduces the possibility of backup failures on first use.
What else should I know about NanoPure™ Media?
NanoPure™ media is part of the NanoPure™ Media Lifecycle Management (NMLM) solution* NMLM enables the administrator to be proactively alerted to any changes in the health of the NanoPure™ cartridge after each use.
The NanoPure™ Intelligent Diagnostic Cartridge™ helps diagnose media AND hardware problems. Within the NMLM solution*, when a backup job completes and the cartridge performance is below acceptable limits, the user will be prompted to run NanoPure Intelligent Diagnostic Cartridge™ to further assess the health of the cartridge that was used along with the health of the tape drive itself. process helps the end-user conclusively identify if faulty media or tape hardware is creating excessive errors in the backup process.
The NanoPure™ Media Lifecycle Management (NMLM) solution* offers superior protection for media and tape hardware when compared to competitive solutions from IBM or Quantum. Only the NMLM solution is designed to work on any brand of tape hardware, and only NMLM captures failures immediately when they occur.
