Released for publication

Kirchheim/Teck, August 18th 2016

Faster Tandberg RDX appliance and drives with up to 1000 MB/s available from Starline.

The new QuikStation 8 is a high-flexible removable disk appliance and provides small and medium enterprises versatile opportunities for backup, restore, storage and disaster recovery. It is 4 to 5 times faster than the previous model and provides data transfer rates of up to 1000 MB/s.

The QuikStation 8, connected via iSCSI, allows an easy integration into physical and virtual environments and also for operation in hybrid cloud storage architectures. With a variety of different operating modes, such as disk, RDX, tape automation or a combination of RDX and tape automation, the RDX
QuikStation 8 is one of the most versatile backup solutions.

RDX combines the benefits of disk and tape, fast data access and long-term preservation. Together with high capacitive RDX removable media from Tandberg, the system provides online storage with unlimited offline storage. The new RDX QuikStor drive is designed for erver installation and with the SATA III interface a quick removable disk system for data storage and archiving. It provides full read and write compatibility with all current and future RDX media generations and it is seven times faster as the previous SATA I model.

The RDX QuikStor SATA III is suitable to back up individual virtualization hosts. The data throughput of up to

330 MB/s enables an improved integration in Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware. RDX drives are available as internal and external versions. The external RDX USB3+ drive with USB 3.0 can be used as an external USB hard drive. However, it is much more robust and reliable. RDX USB3+ is suitable for mobile operation, in the media and entertainment industry, for sales representatives or simply for the distribution of data to other locations.

Benefits of QuikStation 8:

·  Flexible configuration

·  Network attached RDX

·  Removable hard drives

·  Removable media for unlimited off-site storage
capacity

·  Comprehensive use of RDX drives

·  Protection against failure of one or two RDX media

·  Windows Backup compatibility

·  Simple management through access via any
standard web browser

·  Automatic software update

·  Data transfer rates of up to 1000 MB/s

·  Hybrid mode (combination of
LTO StorageLoader + RDX drives)

·  Depending on device up to 3 years
Bronze Service included

Benefits QuikStor drives:

·  Full backward and forward compatibility

·  Improved hypervisor integration

·  Better RDX integration for backup and archiving

·  Supports hardware encryption

·  7 x faster than RDX QuikStor SATA I

·  30% faster than RDX QuikStor USB3+

·  Removable storage for individual VM hosts

·  Enables easy integration of up to four external
RDX USB drives in a 19" rack

·  10 years durability with RDX removable hard drives

·  Compliant archiving with RDX WORM

Links to the product pages:
http://www.starline.de/en/products/backup-systems/tandberg-data-rdx-drives/tandberg-data-quikstation-8/

http://www.starline.de/en/products/backup-systems/tandberg-data-rdx-drives/tandberg-data-quickstor/

Availability:
The QuikStation 8 and RDX QuikStor drives are immediately available from Starline Computer GmbH. We are more than happy to introduce end-users to a local reseller.

Price:
The price depends on selected ports and removable media. Retailer can purchase NFR devices at special conditions from Starline.

More information:

Go to www.starline.de/en/news/ for more information.

About Starline Computer GmbH:

Starline Computer has more than 30 years of professional experience with data storage systems - having been in the storage and server business since 1982. We are one of the first companies to completely dedicate ourselves to storage and server solutions. This guarantees our partners a maximum of competence. Starline provides complete virtualization and storage solutions such as SAN, RAID, NAS, IP storage, servers, tape libraries and autoloaders, RAID controllers, FC switches, backup software, HBAs and more. For further information visit www.starline.de/en

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