Symply

Symply RAID & LTO Drives

Symply has as a simple philosophy: to design and build best-in-class storage and workflow-enhancement solutions for professional creative users. Offering the world’s most comprehensive range of LTO tape backup and archiving solutions, Symply has become the de facto choice of production companies, post facilities, and broadcasters for LTO tape solutions. An award-winning range of direct-attached shuttle RAIDs, collaborative shared-storage, private and public cloud solutions, portable NVMe drives, and connectivity peripherals complete Symply’s product portfolio. With every product designed, built and tested in the UK, every Symply product is also professionally supported worldwide.

Why Choose Symply for Your Storage Needs?

Symply has a wide-ranging product portfolio of solutions committed to innovation and practicality, with each product thoughtfully designed to meet the needs of users. Performance, functionality, reliability, and serviceability are core to every product. Whether you’re looking for direct-attached storage, shared-storage, backup and archive systems, cloud storage, or improved connectivity, Symply has a professional solution that will slot into your workflow, be it on-set, in the studio, or at the heart of your company’s infrastructure.

A whole range of enterprise-class storage options, from standalone desktop RAID drives to rackmount solutions and scalable LTO tape libraries that keep your data safe. The product range covers three critical areas: shared storage, backup systems, and long-term archiving. Whether you’re offloading multi-cam shoots, managing terabytes of creative assets, or archiving years of footage, Symply RAID & LTO Storage makes complex data workflows straightforward. Symply drives are engineered to handle demanding workloads; they’re built for high throughput, total reliability, and compatibility with leading creative applications.

Engineered for Media & Enterprise Workflows

Symply products and solutions are built to exceed the performance and environmental conditions that creative users demand. From quiet operation to fully field-serviceable components, every Symply product is designed with media users in mind. Whether you’re offloading multi-cam shoots, film scanning, managing terabytes of content in post-production, or archiving decades of footage, Symply can be your trusted vendor.

Explore Symply SPARK Desktop Shuttle RAID Features

The award-winning Symply SPARK is available in 4-bay or 8-bay form-factors and offers capacities up to 240TB with Thunderbolt 3 connectivity. Featuring a high-performance hardware RAID controller and fully field-serviceable drives, fan, and power supply, SPARK is ideal for DITs, video editors, and content shuttling. Its all-metal design is compact, lightweight, rugged, and exceptionally quiet during operation. More demanding users should check out SPARK XT – special edition models that offer SSD performance at HDD pricing and with and HDD capacity. It’s not witchcraft, it’s innovative multi-actuator hard disk drive technology.

Symply LTO – Long-Term Archiving You Can Trust

LTO is the world’s adopted tape format and in 2024, over 176,500,000 TeraBytes of LTO capacity was shipped worldwide. Tape is not dead. SymplyPRO standalone tape drive systems, and SymplyPRO XTL tape libraries make up the world’s most comprehensive range of LTO tape solutions: offering the widest range of drive, form-factor, and connectivity configuration. With numerous world firsts under their belt, Symply knows tape, with every solution coming with unrivalled support.

What is LTO and Who Should Use It?

LTO (Linear Tape-Open) is magnetic tape storage designed for archiving large volumes of data. It’s the proven standard for professional backup and archiving. LTO tapes offers high capacity, low cost per terabyte, and a lifespan of up to 30 years. If you’re in broadcast, film, or any industry that needs to keep original assets safe for future remasters, an LTO tape backup for video is a smart investment. LTO systems are also ideal for disaster recovery and data protection, ensuring you always have a copy of your data to protect against ransomware, malware, and cyber threats.

Supporting UK Business

Symply is a UK company, headquartered in Cambridge. By buying Symply, you’re supporting British industry, local jobs, and nurturing home-grown innovation and talent. Symply has established a reputation for quality design through thoughtful engineering, and this comes from a vast amount of combined industry experience. Product assembly and testing is all conducted in Cambridge too, with Symply’s support team (of humans) based in the UK too. But when the UK is out of working hours, Symply’s US team will look after you. Symply offer professional storage, with fast availability and servicing, while giving you the confidence of local accountability.

Why Choose DataStores for Symply Storage?

At DataStores, we specialise in RAID and LTO, and Symply’s portfolio aligns with the demands of our customers and their expectation to work without interruption and hassle free. Our team understands real-world production needs and can recommend the best mix of storage for speed, redundancy, and archiving. We carry the full Symply range, ready for fast UK shipping. Whether you’re upgrading your editing suite, setting up a new backup system, or archiving decades of media, we’ll help you choose the right Symply solution.

Trusted Stockist

As an authorised Symply stockist, DataStores provides genuine Symply storage systems with full manufacturer warranty, so you know exactly what you’re getting.

Specialists in RAID, LTO & Creative Workflows

DataStores combines technical expertise with personalised support. Our team understands media workflows – if you ever have a question about setup, RAID configurations, or LTO archiving workflows, you’ll talk to people who speak your language and understand tight production pressures. We aim to build long-term relationships with the studios, post-production houses, and creative professionals who rely on us. When you buy Symply LTO and RAID storage from DataStores, you’re getting a supplier who’s invested in your success.

Symply storage solutions keep your workflow fast, your backups secure, and your archives secure. Browse our Symply storage range today.