Anyone used the MAXX DIGITAL Evo 4K Expando?

[Walter Biscardi]

Yep, been running this since January here. It wasn’t called the 4k Expando when we started using it, but I guess that’s the official name now. 16TB (16 1TB Drives.) We’re set up in two 8TB Partitions, each running RAID 5.

We have 6 workstations all working off this SAN via the Final Share ethernet shared storage setup from Maxx. The array is just simply rock solid. If you look at the article I wrote about the Shared Storage solution, you’ll see a picture of it as it used to look before they added the fancy new cover to the front. And at the time they were calling it the Evo 2 HD, but I guess they have updated the naming structure now.

All 16 drives striped together in RAID 0 was something like 750 or 850MB/s. That was scary fast. We’re getting something like 450 or 500MB/s the way it’s set up now with the 2 partitions in RAID 5.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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[Russell Lasson]

Great. Thanks Walter.

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Colorist/Digital Cinema Specialist
Color Mill
Salt Lake City, UT
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