Removable Disk Backup: Idealstor Teralyte

For years storage companies have claimed that disk to disk backup was an ideal solution for small to medium sized businesses. As data increased, the higher seek times, larger capacities and decreasing costs have led many SMB's to move to some sort of disk backup solution. The problem for the SMB has been that even though disk has made the backup/restore process faster, companies still needed to rely on tape for offsite backup.

The Idealstor Teralyte was designed with the SMB in mind and for the first time offers a truly portable disk backup solution. The Teralyte combines the speed of SATA disks with the portability of tape by using disk media for both backup and offsite storage. Teralyte uses nonproprietary hard drives allowing SMB's to use any capacity/manufacturer SATA disk as locally attached removable disk backup media. These disks can then be left in the system for local storage or they can be physically removed, like a tape for offsite storage and disaster recovery. Disk to disk backup is designed to eliminate the problems associated with tape based backup. Teralyte makes this a reality by using portable disk media and completely eliminating the need for tape.