Scalar i7 RAPTOR
Quantum
Category Storage
In today’s media and entertainment landscape, data growth has reached unprecedented levels. Studios, broadcasters, and post-production facilities are capturing content in higher resolutions, with more cameras and longer retention requirements than ever before. Yet keeping all that data accessible, secure, and affordable has become one of the industry’s most significant challenges.
The Quantum Scalar i7 RAPTOR was engineered precisely for this moment. As the world’s most advanced tape storage system, it provides the density, efficiency, and sustainability that modern content workflows demand—helping media organizations build vast, AI-ready content lakes while drastically reducing operational costs and energy consumption.
At its core, the Scalar i7 RAPTOR delivers an industry-first combination of performance and scale: enabled for LTO 10, the system supports up to 60 petabytes of native capacity per rack, leveraging cartridges with 30 TB native capacity (up to 75 TB compressed).
This means post houses and broadcast operations can store twice as much content in the same footprint as legacy solutions, cutting data center space and colocation costs in half while consolidating scattered archives into a single, unified content repository.
But density is only half the story. The Scalar i7 RAPTOR was designed from the ground up with sustainability and simplicity in mind. Its 80 PLUS Platinum-rated power supplies deliver the lowest power consumption per petabyte of any tape system on the market, slashing both power and cooling expenses. The result is a massive step forward for environmentally conscious media operations, where energy savings translate directly into production budgets and carbon-reduction goals.
Every aspect of the Scalar i7 RAPTOR reflects attention to operational excellence and simple maintenance—something every studio engineer and data manager can appreciate. All components are customer-serviceable in under five minutes, ensuring continuous uptime for ingest, rendering, and distribution workflows. With built-in ransomware protection, logical tape blocking, and air-gap capabilities, it safeguards irreplaceable media assets for decades to come—perfect for archives that must remain both secure and instantly retrievable.
For media organizations, the impact is transformative. The Scalar i7 RAPTOR makes it practical to retain everything—every take, every project, every frame—without compromise. By serving as the cold-storage foundation of a private content lake, it gives creative teams the power to retrieve footage, remonetize archives, and train AI models on years of digital content without relying on costly cloud tiers.
In a world where data volumes and sustainability expectations are rising together, the Quantum Scalar i7 RAPTOR stands as a breakthrough—an exabyte-scale archive that’s greener, denser, and smarter than anything before it. It doesn’t just preserve the world’s stories; it gives studios, networks, and creators the freedom to tell more of them—securely, sustainably, and forever.
Key Features and Benefits
• Unmatched Storage Density
Up to 60 PB of native capacity per rack with LTO-10 (30 TB per cartridge), delivering 200% more density than traditional enterprise libraries.
→ Store more content in less space, cutting data center and colocation costs by half.
• 80 PLUS Platinum Power Supplies
Delivers the lowest power consumption per petabyte in the industry.
→ Reduce power and cooling expenses by up to 50%, meeting studio sustainability targets.
• Customer-Serviceable Design
Modular components are replaceable in under five minutes without downtime.
→ Maximize uptime and minimize disruption in high-throughput production environments.
• AI-Ready Content Lake Integration
Seamlessly pairs with Quantum ActiveScale® object storage for tiered content workflows.
→ Enable on-demand access to archived assets for AI training, metadata enrichment, and repurposing.
• Cyber-Resilient Architecture
Built-in air-gap, logical tape blocking, and ransomware protection.
→ Ensure long-term integrity and sovereignty of creative assets.
• Sustainable Infrastructure
Consumes 95% less energy than disk systems and is fully LTO-10 compatible for decades of reliability.
→ Support corporate ESG goals and extend archive lifecycles without cloud fees.
