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Q2078AD is a NAS storage system featuring 12 drive bays that accept a mix of SATA HDD, SAS HDD, SATA SSD, and NVMe SSD drives with a total storage capacity of up to 1 PB. It supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, and RAID 10 configurations, powered by an Intel Xeon processor with 8 cores and comes with 16 GB of pre-installed ECC DDR4 memory, expandable up to 64 GB.
Q2078AD offers multiple interfaces including USB 3.2, Thunderbolt, Ethernet 10GbE, and Fibre Channel, with 4 LAN ports ensuring robust network support. Designed with expansion capabilities, redundant fan cooling, and a redundant 750W power supply, it is ideally suited for SMB backup, enterprise data centers, virtualization, and media server applications.
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In enterprise banking environments, IT teams leverage the Q2078AD-LTO-8 30TB RW PALLET 960 CATRIDGE PL-7A to archive terabytes of daily transaction logs. This high-density tape solution reduces data-center footprint by up to 70%, delivers AES-256 encryption for regulatory compliance, and accelerates audit readiness. The outcome is cost-effective long-term retention with rapid disaster-recovery capabilities, ensuring uninterrupted financial operations and secure offsite backup.
Radiology departments store petabytes of DICOM imagery by deploying the Q2078AD-LTO-8 30TB RW PALLET 960 CATRIDGE PL-7A in their tape libraries. Each 30 TB cartridge supports end-to-end data integrity checks, meeting HIPAA retention mandates and accelerating restore times. This scalable solution minimizes online storage costs by over 60%, ensures secure offsite replication, and delivers reliable patient-data recovery—ultimately enhancing clinical workflows and safeguarding sensitive health records.
Post-production studios ingest terabytes of 4K/8K footage daily and rely on the Q2078AD-LTO-8 30TB RW PALLET 960 CATRIDGE PL-7A for high-throughput long-term storage. A full pallet delivers up to 28.8 PB of compressed capacity across 960 cartridges, enabling parallel backups and rapid mass restores. This tape-based workflow cuts total cost of ownership by 50% versus disk, preserves master files with industry-leading durability, and accelerates archive retrieval for time-sensitive editing projects.
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 Q2078AD |  Q2R69A |  Q2010A |  Q2015A |  AG119A | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product Type | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System |
| Storage Type | NAS | SAN | NAS | SAN | SAN |
| Form Factor | Rackmount | Rackmount | Desktop | Rackmount | Rackmount |
| Bay Count | 12-bay | 24-bay | 4-bay | 16-bay | 16-bay |
| Supported Drive Types | Mixed | Mixed | Mixed | SATA HDD / SAS HDD / SATA SSD / NVMe SSD | Mixed |
| Hot-Swap Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Max Supported Capacity | 1 PB | 1 PB | 256 TB | 1 PB | 256 TB |
| RAID Support | RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 5 / RAID 6 / RAID 10 | RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 5 / RAID 6 / RAID 10 / JBOD | RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 5 / RAID 6 | RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 5 / RAID 6 / RAID 10 | RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 5 / RAID 6 / RAID 10 |
| CPU Type | Intel Xeon | Intel Xeon | Intel Xeon | Intel Xeon | Intel Xeon |
| CPU Cores | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Installed RAM | 16 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB | 32 GB | 16 GB |
| Max RAM Capacity | 64 GB | 64 GB | 64 GB | 128 GB | 64 GB |
| RAM Type | ECC DDR4 | ECC DDR4 | DDR4 | ECC DDR4 | DDR4 |
| Network Ports | 10GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE |
| LAN Ports | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| USB Ports | USB 3.2 | USB 3.2 | USB 3.2 | USB 3.2 | USB 3.0 |
| Expansion Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cooling | Redundant Fan | Active | Active | Active | Active |
| Power Supply | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant |
| Power Supply Wattage | 750W | 500W | 350W | 500W | 500W |
| Operating System | Custom OS | Custom OS | Custom OS | Custom OS | Custom OS |
| Snapshot Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cloud Sync Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Virtualization Ready | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| iSCSI Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Surveillance Support | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Use Case | Enterprise Data Center | SMB / Enterprise Data Center / Virtualization / Media Server | Enterprise Data Center | Enterprise Data Center | Enterprise Data Center / Virtualization / Media Server / SMB |
| Product Name | Q2078AD Storage Appliance | Q2R69A Enterprise SAN Storage System | Q2010A Enterprise Storage Array | Q2015A Enterprise SAN Storage | AG119A Storage System |
| Height | 3 inches | 3.5 inches | 3.5 inches | 3 inches | 3.5 inches |
| Width | 17 inches | 17.5 inches | 17 inches | 17 inches | 17.5 inches |
| Depth | 28 inches | 27 inches | 24 inches | 28 inches | 27.5 inches |
| Weight | 35 lbs | 45 lbs | 35 lbs | 50 lbs | 35 lbs |
Bulk LTO-8 media arrived well packaged and performs reliably.
Consistent high capacity backups with no failures.
Excellent choice for large scale archival needs.
Reliable write speeds and clean reads.
Suitable for enterprise backup infrastructure.
The Q2078AD LTO-8 30TB RW Pallet PL-7A is a bulk kit of 960 rewritable magnetic tape cartridges, each delivering up to 12TB native (30TB compressed) capacity and designed for enterprise-grade backup and archive workflows.
Each LTO-8 cartridge offers 12TB of native storage and up to 30TB of compressed capacity (2.5:1 compression ratio) for optimal data density and cost efficiency.
The PL-7A pallet contains 960 individual LTO-8 RW cartridges, enabling large-scale tape deployments or high-volume archive projects.
Q2078AD LTO-8 cartridges are compatible with all LTO-8 certified tape drives and robotic libraries from major vendors, including HPE, IBM and Quantum.