Facilis Terrablock
The dedicated Post Production and Digital Intermediate shared storage system that outperforms the competition, and undercuts traditional high-performance SAN pricing. It's due to the architecture; SATA drives; optical fibre channel connectivity; virtual volume workflow; intelligent disk management and more.
The Facilis Technology TerraBlock is a virtual-local storage system. This means that any CPU attached to the SAN can access drives as if they were local to that machine. This removes many of the configuration complexities often faced with SANs that require client software to be installed. In effect they appear as local drives to the OS and mount as such. The benefit of this is centralization of storage, switchable storage, and of course shared storage, with the ability to connect to several systems with read-only capacity to share data.
New for TerraBlock Version 3.0
Connectivity
New iSCSI server module - This purpose-built iSCSI bridge server enables 1Gbit connections to Ethernet clients, while maintaining the same management tools and virtual volume access as the faster fibre channel clients. Up to 60 clients can be connected on a TerraBlock network with no license fees, and these can be a mix of Ethernet and Fibre.
Virtual Volumes
TerraBlock is the only shared storage system in the industry to offer virtual volume capabilities with no client software. With TerraBlock 3.0, virtual volumes offer a higher maximum capacity of 8TB for Windows 32bit clients, and larger for Mac OSX and 64bit Windows clients. In addition, the Change Volume feature now includes the ability to dynamically expand volume size for both Windows and OSX clients on the fly, and without reformatting or loosing data!
Read-Only Volumes
TerraBlock derives its impressive performance through a volume-level structure, using virtual volume creation to add flexibility to the workflow design. In 3.0, both Windows and OSX clients have the ability to schedule background updates to read-only volumes, down to a one minute interval. Operators will not even notice the updates taking place, and newly written files are available almost immediately.
TerraBlock Manager
For 3.0, Facilis introduces a new Linux version of the TerraBlock Manager software. With all the features of the Mac and Windows versions, Linux clients now have fully supported status. Other new features of TerraBlock Manager include a single line display for Tandem spanned volumes, colour-coded read, write and error volume states and a display for volume creation date. In Mac OSX, an expert mode has been added to simplify daily operations.
Administration
For the system administrator, new tools allow for a higher degree of control and alerting. Email notification for server and drive errors has been added as well as export of server statistics to CSV files. Through the server TerraBlock Manager there is also a drive error reset and the ability to mount or un-mount virtual volumes remotely. TerraBlock 3.0 also offers an optional re-mount of all client volumes after server reboot.
Available Models
TerraBlock is available in three chassis with storage capacities ranging from 2 - 18TB
24D
It's time to pull out the big guns and prepare yourself for the next generation of deliverables. The 24D can multi stream 10bit uncompressed HD and even handle 24ps 2k DPX playback with simultaneous proxy creation.
- 40 at compressed SD video
- 16 at uncompressed SD video
- 4 at 1080p 10bit HD
Hard Drives
- 6TB, 12TB and 18TB models
- SATA 7200 RPM hot swap drives
- Intelligent disk management
Protection
- Dyna-RAID selectable RAID level
- Hot swap drive replacement
- Server independent metadata
Sharing
- Cross-platform OSX & Windows
- Virtual volumes for flexible allocation
- Read-only and read + write access
- Appears as local SCSCI
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NEW 24EX
The new 24EX model replaces the 12D that served small to medium sized workgroups well since 2004. The expandable 24 drive chassis is half-populated for easy future expansion, but does very well on its own! With the capability of 2 simultaneous playback streams of uncompressed HD and even 2K 24fps DPX playback, the 24EX packs a lot of bandwidth into a small price. The 24EX comes in a range of sizes up to 12TB, and upgrades to double that capacity are available at any time.
- 20 at compressed SD video
- 8 at uncompressed SD video
- 2 at 1080p 10bit HD
Hard Drives
- 3TB, 6TB, 9TB and 12TB models
- SATA 7200 RPM hot swap drives
- Intelligent disk management
Protection
- Dyna-RAID selectable RAID level
- Hot swap drive replacement
- Server independent metadata
Sharing
- Cross-platform OSX & Windows
- Virtual volumes for flexible allocation
- Read-only and read + write access
- Appears as local SCSCI
Play streams
8XS
You've never seen so much for so little in a SAN system. Built on the same proven technology that powers the multi-stream HD servers, the 8XS comes in at a price never seen before for a fibre channel environment with up to 8 users supported on direct-connect.
- 15 at compressed SD video
- 6 at uncompressed SD video
- 1 at 1080i 10bit HD
Hard Drives
- 2TB and 4TB models
- SATA 7200 RPM hot swap drives
- Intelligent disk management
Protection
- Dyna-RAID selectable RAID level
- Hot swap drive replacement
- Server independent metadata
Sharing
- Cross-platform OSX & Windows
- Virtual volumes for flexible allocation
- Read-only and read + write access
- Appears as local SCSCI