DVS SAN
The DVS SAN is the most cost-effective high performance post-production focussed SAN in the world. The combined power of DVS' twenty-five years experience of optimising disk technology and ADIC's SNFS shared filing system has produced a SAN that is making the decision to choose high data rate shared storage an easy one.
Customers include Midnight Transfer, The Moving Picture Company and The Mill.
DVS-SAN is a central storage system for uncompressed video and digital film. It has been designed for use in the film and HD post production environment, where large amounts of data must be accessed in real time by multiple workstations. It's been optimized for use with CLIPSTER® and the Pronto2K/ProntoHD disk recorder and meets the special demands of digital intermediate work and HD projects requiring ultra high data-rates and fast access times.
Attached workstations can use DVS-SAN for all their storage requirements; local storage is unnecessary. This way, several workstations can access the same data, concurrently and in real time, eliminating the need for copying and exporting. DVS-SAN employs RAID5 Fibre Channel disk arrays for protection against data loss. The system is upward-scalable to hundreds of terabytes and so offers enough storage capacity for several film projects.
DVS-SAN works seamlessly with DVS' SATA near-line storage. This is a fast and cost effective back-up and temporary depository for digital film data. For example, the near-line storage could hold the full resolution data whilst VFX, 3D or other offline work is being done.
- Designed for HD, 2K and 4K post production
- Optimized for operation with CLIPSTER and Pronto2K/ProntoHD
- Compatible with all data-centric post workflows; Baselight, Spirit4K, Lustre and others can all be direct attached to the SAN and read or write 2K data at the same time
- Multiple workstations can access the same data in real-time
- Project material can be accessed by different work suites without copying data
- Data can be processed, while capturing is still in progress
- Video and audio data is stored in any file format just like a direct attached storage device
- Multiple formats coexist in the same storage array
- Simple integration into existing networks * Storage can be scaled to fit requirements
- Advanced remote diagnostics and maintenance