Stornext 5 Announced at IBC

Xsanity - Stornext 5 Announced at IBC:
Quantum announces latest version of Stornext, coming as appliances end of 2013. Software only packages available Q1 2014.

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Which is the Best RAID level for Video Editing and Post Production? (Part Three): Number Soup for the Soul

Which is the Best RAID level for Video Editing and Post Production? (Part Three): Number Soup for the Soul:
In Part One and Part Two we ran the numbers on each RAID level to find out how well they performed on speed, capacity and failure rates as the drive sizes increased. In this final part we’ll try to put together a few rules of thumb to help guide us in selecting the right RAID level for video editing or post production.

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Top 5 Reasons Your Storage Doesn’t Work for Video Editing

Top 5 Reasons Your Storage Doesn’t Work for Video Editing
If your storage system talks only about IOPS, bandwidths and latencies, with no mention of supported stream counts, you are probably looking at a storage system designed for enterprise IT applications; not real-time media editing.

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Media Storage Performance

Media Storage Performance
Media storage is still expensive and very specialist, with a few suppliers providing high performance network storage solutions to the industry. Specifying, selecting and configuring storage is very complex, with technical decisions having far reaching cost and performance implications.

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Crossbar's RRAM to boast terabytes of storage, faster write speeds than NAND

Crossbar's RRAM to boast terabytes of storage, faster write speeds than NAN
Hardware makers often sing the praises of their latest and greatest flash memory, but the folks at Crossbar are ready to show them up with resistive RAM (RRAM) that they've been quietly working on. Compared to NAND, RRAM comes in at half the size and boasts 20 times faster write speeds (140MB/s), reads data at 17MB per second, guzzles 20 times less power and has 10 times more endurance. Since RRAM is non-volatile memory, it can keep data even when it's powered off, á la NAND. As if that weren't enough, 3D stacking construction allows for several terabytes of storage, endowing one 200 x 200mm 200mm2 chip with one terabyte.

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Sony & Panasonic Jointly Developing 300GB Optical Disc Recording:

Sony & Panasonic Jointly Developing 300GB Optical Disc Recording:
Sony and Panasonic have announced that they have signed a basic agreement with the objective of jointly developing a next-generation standard for professional-use optical discs, with the objective of expanding their archive business for long-term digital data storage. Both companies aim to improve their development efficiency based on the technologies held by each respective company, and will target the development of an optical disc with recording capacity of at least 300GB by the end of 2015. Going forward, Sony and Panasonic will continue to hold discussions regarding the specifications and other items relating to the development of this new standard.

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How To Build A DIY 4K Raid..!

How To Build A DIY 4K Raid..!
As many of you may already know or should know...4K is here to stay! That's right...each year the past several we've been hearing and seeing more and more 4K buzz at big expos like CES and Nabshow especially. So far we've seen the 4K TV and Professional Monitors hit market each year but at a very high buy in price. Though more recently the hottest screen for the money is the the Seiki 4K going for around $1499(or less...I've seen them sell for as little as $1k on ebay). This has been one big issue with 4K still taking a long time to be embraced outside of the local Movie Theaters like Regal, AMC, or for me locally Cinetopia have all upgraded screens to 4K. This past Nabshow we also got another curve ball. Blackmagic Design introduced a 4K Cinema Camera to follow last years 2.5K for $3k camera. The exciting part is it's only $4K for 4K(you can learn more about it on my Blackmagic Booth vid). The other issue have been how do I play it out. Well more recently various companies are offering you options. Nvidia have several offering that will output 4K, Matrox as well with their 4K Mojito Card(also check out my booth vid for Matrox with Dan discussing their new 4K card), and again Blackmagic with their NewDeckLink 4K Extreme so as you can see you have options!

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A Comparison of 10 Thunderbolt RAID Storage Solutions

A Comparison of 10 Thunderbolt RAID Storage Solutions | wolfcrow:
The way things are going, you could safely bet that you’ll always need more storage, never less. Nobody wants to transfer data every few months once their drives run out, and it is not always a good idea to put everything in internal drives because then it is totally dependent on your computer.

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The Production Costs of 4K: From Acquisition to Archiving

The Production Costs of 4K: From Acquisition to Archiving | CineTechnica:
4K was the definitive buzzword at NAB this year, as well as CES, with a number of manufacturers releasing 4K televisions, 4K game systems, and 4K cameras. With the consumer demand for 4K content just around the corner, one of the most often asked questions is “How much is this gonna cost us?!” After polling a number of industry sources, I decided to try and break down the production costs of shooting, data management, dailies creation and archiving in 4K to show that it isn’t as intimidating as you might think.

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Editing Storage in the Production Pits

Post Magazine - Editing Storage in the Production Pits:
Digital storage is a big part of the NAB show.  All that content has to be kept somewhere. Post production, including nonlinear editing, requires a lot of storage and with performance characteristics that are very different from most computer storage applications.

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Introducing Promise VTrak A-Class

Xsanity - Introducing Promise VTrak A-Class:


This is a 4U chassis that integrates one or two MDC+RAID controllers and 24 4TB SAS drives. Each controller has four 8G FC ports, which can be connected directly to up to 4 clients or to more with a fibre switch. The drive array is expandable using standard Promise J-Class JBODs, E-Class RAID units, or a combination of the two. This scales to more than 7 petabytes managed by a single SAN controller.

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Mac OS X Lions get native Ext file system access

Mac OS X Lions get native Ext file system access - The H Open: News and Features:
Paragon has updated its Linux file system driver for Mac OS X to support Lion and Mountain Lion. ExtFS for Mac OS X 9.0 provides complete read and write access for Ext2, Ext3 and Ext4 filesystems. Paragon's drivers make it possible to create files larger than 4 GB and supports automatic mounting. As a low level filesystem driver, Ext2/3/4 drives appear directly in the Finder and appear as native OS X drives. According to Paragon, there's minimal performance loss compared to HFS+.The company builds its Ext file system driver on its in-house universal filesystem driver which it also uses to deliver NTFS for Mac 10.0. The Paragon ExtFS costs $39.95 and a 10 day trial version is available.

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HGST Announces 12Gb/s SAS SSD

HGST Announces 12Gb/s SAS SSD | StorageReview.com - Storage Reviews:
HGST is announcing a summer release for their new 12Gb/s MLC SAS SSD family, the first 12Gb/s SAS SSDs on the market. Three models comprise the new line including the Ultrastar SSD800MH, Ultrastar SSD800MM and Ultrastar SSD1000MR. The new SAS SSDs utilize co-developed Intel/HGST controllers as well as high endurance 25nm MLC NAND. HGST designed these new drives for the most performance demanding applications such as high-frequency trading, online banking, cloud computing, online gaming, and big data analytics. These applications will benefit from hot caching delivered by the new 12Gb/s SAS SSDs.

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Fusion-io Unveils 1.6TB ioFX for Workstation Applications Such as 4K VFX and Stereoscopic 3D Production

Fusion-io Unveils 1.6TB ioFX for Workstation Applications Such as 4K VFX and Stereoscopic 3D Production | 3Droundabout:
Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO) today announced that the ioFX workstation acceleration platform is now available with 1.6 TB of capacity, in addition to the original 420 GB form factor. The high capacity ioFX is ideal for video editing, computer assisted design (CAD), 4K and stereoscopic production, as well as digital intermediate (DI) finishing.

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Ciphertex to Introduce CX-6K-AV at NAB

Ciphertex to Introduce CX-6K-AV at NAB | Below the Line:
Ciphertex, a global provider of hardware-encrypted storage products, will unveil the CX-6K-AV at the NAB Show in Las Vegas next week. This new 24TB portable, highly-secure NAS server is ideal for backup, disaster recovery and business continuity, file sharing and virtualization. It will be showcased at booth #SL12510, along with the company’s full line of encrypted digital storage systems.

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CacheIO, Quantum, MTI Film Team to Demonstrate 4K Streaming at HPA Technology Retreat

CacheIO, Quantum, MTI Film Team to Demonstrate 4K Streaming at HPA Technology Retreat:
CacheIO, the Flash storage technology company, has teamed with Quantum, provider of StorNext shared file system software, and MTI Film, a Hollywood-based postproduction services provider and software developer. This alliance will demonstrate its joint system for uncompressed 4K streaming at the Hollywood Post Alliance Technology Retreat taking place Monday through Friday. The HPA demo will highlight the capabilities of MTI Film’s new dailies workflow, Cortex::Control Dailies.

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Which harddrive should I buy for video editing?

Which harddrive should I buy for video editing? | Jonny Elwyn - Film Editor:
I often get asked by producers which harddrive they should buy for the projects I work on for them. I thought I’d write up a quick blog post that explains which harddrives are best for video editing and why, and some of my preferred drives to use for different tasks.

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Another step in the Commodity Hardware Revolution

Another step in the Commodity Hardware Revolution:
Not too long ago, I was asked to write up my predictions on storage and networking technology for the coming year. One of those predictions was the rise of new, combined file system/logical volume managers like ZFS and BtrFS.

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SSDs vs. hard drives vs. hybrids: Which storage tech is right for you?

SSDs vs. hard drives vs. hybrids: Which storage tech is right for you? | PCWorld:
In times past, choosing the best PC storage option required merely selecting the highest-capacity hard drive one could afford. If only life were still so simple! The fairly recent rise of solid-state drives and hybrid drives (which mix standard hard drives with solid-state memory) have significantly altered the storage landscape, creating a cornucopia of confusing options for the everyday consumer.

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Storage Buyer's Guide: Safeguarding Your Digital Creations

Storage Buyer's Guide: Safeguarding Your Digital Creations | Videomaker.com:
From camera to computer to long-term safekeeping, we'll look at everything you need to know about today's storage solutions.

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