Key Points
- CORAID EtherDrive is a perfect fit for video and network surveillance applications that require high performance, massive capacity, and easy management by teams with no storage training
- Starting at $500/TB, EtherDrive enables price-performance that enables longer storage windows and throughput-intensive analysis
Storage for video and network surveillance is a high-growth market. This is another industry equally sensitive to costs and high throughput rates – with just-in-time capacity growth options. In the rapid shift from analog to digital video, a huge market has been created seemingly overnight for solutions such as EtherDrive, with affordable, high-performance scale-out architectures. High-definition digital cameras are producing between 4 -5x the amount of data as standard cameras. (Example: 100 HD cameras can easily produce 300 TB per week, quickly moving into the petabyte range.) Administrators of these systems are seeking less expensive, highly scalable storage where trade-offs in retention times are not necessary just to accommodate budgets.
The Olathe, Kansas Police Department is using CORAID EtherDrive storage to store video footage from the department’s in-car video surveillance system. Peter Carrero and Bourke Hutchinson, GIS Programmers with the Olathe Police Department, implemented a storage solution that runs on Linux servers and communicates with Microsoft embedded Windows clients. The solution provides the City of Olathe’s Police Department with the ability to scale data storage incrementally as they need it, up to multiple terabytes, while meeting compliance mandates under the FBI for data security.
