Improve video production efficiency with scale-out storage
Today’s media and entertainment industries are driving a transition to a digital environment that requires affordable, highly scalable storage.
Benefits of open architecture
Whether it’s preserving old media such as movies on film into digitally encoded files, producing new content, engaging in post-production activities or recording and disseminating music, the evolution to a high-definition multimedia world requires efficient resource use of a single pool of block storage and best-of-breed file systems and applications.
New High Definition (HD) formats 2K (2048x1560 pixels per frame) and 4K (4096x3120 pixels per frame) represent a fundamental change for the systems designed to ingest, create, store, manage, edit, and deliver digital media. In storage terms a single frame of video is anywhere from 12MB (2K) to around 40MB (4K), so data storage is not linear when doubling the resolution. Take into consideration that each second of video is 24 frames and you can see why there is such a large storage requirement.
This advancement of larger image size is overloading traditional storage systems and requires a new networked architecture for media applications. An architecture that can deliver higher performance and better accessibility at lower cost, enabling a wave of new HD media applications from editing and distribution to content archiving, and on-demand and streaming applications.
The Coraid EtherDrive SRX storage array is designed to help media environments accelerate time to results with a highly scalable, yet easily manageable storage area network. By leveraging the power of Ethernet, the Coraid SRX is able to eliminate the bottleneck associated with traditional network storage solutions. The resulting performance benefits coupled with the ability to offer a scalable storage solution makes the Coraid SRX an ideal solution for multiple media applications.
Coraid storage deployed for video post-production is the first storage solution that is able to use SATA disks for higher resolution video formats. By leveraging the scale-out power of Ethernet, we have engineered a solution that can auto-tier inbound random writes and then push this data to the SATA disk in a highly sequential manner, allowing faster performance from the EtherDrive shelves. This enables extremely fast performance and almost zero latency getting from the initiator to the actual raw disk.
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| Performance | Coraid EtherDrive storage removes I/O bottlenecks, helps video production environments accelerate time to results. |
| Scalability | Coraid EtherDrive arrays can easily be scaled to petabytes of storage by simply adding shelves behind the hosts. This allows video production users to cost-effectively expand their storage infrastructure with predictable performance as needs grow. |
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Cross-platform expertise |
Adobe Premiere/CS, AVID, Bones/Dailies, StorNext, and many more |
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Multiple formats |
HD, AVCHD, MPEG, 2K, 4K and stereoscopic workloads. |
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Multiple media on a single platform |
Rendering for animated films, processing for traditional digital shoots and ingest from film reels. |
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Simplicity |
Coraid EtherDrive shelves appear as locally attached disks to hosts. Because EtherDrive uses connectionless Ethernet as the transport protocol for storage traffic, customers are liberated from complex connection-based network management. |
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Cost |
Coraid EtherDrive matches the performance of Fibre Channel storage at a fraction of the cost. Because companies do not need to rip and replace any controllers in order to grow capacity, the cost growth is predictable and linear with scale. |