Products and Services
Disk Array
Both solutions can be easily configured as either local storage for single workstations or employed in SAN environments enabling a workgroup of Macintosh and Windows NT systems to share files. Both disk arrays are compatible with fibre channel hubs, fabric switches and SAN management software and are ideal for building low-cost SANs for non-linear editing applications.
A single VideoRaid fc or VideoRack fcx disk array will sustain a minimum data transfer rate of 65 MB/second (per channel in the VideoRack fcx) - more than enough performance to support a single-stream of uncompressed video or dual-stream, real-time NLE systems at broadcast resolutions to 500 KB/frame. For applications that demand higher sustained data rates, multiple arrays can be striped together to support the necessary bandwidth requirements.
As video storage requirements grow, both arrays can be easily connected in a Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) using inexpensive copper cabling. In the FC-AL configuration, up to 126 VideoRaid fc and VideoRack fcx disk arrays - over 75 terabytes of storage - can be attached to a single NLE workstation.
Both subsystems attach to any fibre channel equipped Macintosh, or PC (Windows 98/NT/2000) system. The on-board hardware RAID controller eliminates the need for disk striping software or configuring drive stripe sets.
VideoRaid fc and each channel of VideoRack fcx looks like a one large drive to the operating system, allowing users to simply attach the system to a fibre channel host adapter and initialize the array as if it were a single disk drive. Both products support all popular non-linear video editing systems, including multi-stream and uncompressed systems. They are also compatible with systems running Microsoft Windows Media Services, Real Networks RealServer and Apple QuickTime Streaming Server.
Medea Corp., 5701 Lindero Canyon Road, Bldg. 3-100, Westlake Village, CA 91362. Tel: 818-597-7645; Fax: 818-597-7643.
