this could be the new AVID storage

[Bobby Calautti]

They look and feel similar.

https://www.avid.com/products/2915.htm

[Dino Sanacory]

Actually the new Avid local storage is sourced from Promise. The picture on the website does not look at all like what they had out at the recent New York New Thinking event. It seems they have just completely tossed the entirety of the old Medea line and handed the job off to Promise. Sort of like what one of their competitors recently did…

Looks like a good box though. Interconnect through SAS. All RAID and stripping management and intelligence is inside the box so it can present to the computer as a single volume with no additional management burden placed on the CPU.

Management interface available via browser over ethernet. No more bouncing serial cables through multiple controllers. Claim the single 16 bay outperforms the previous double 10 bay setup. Don’t know what sort of RAID configurations apply in that comparison. As it’s super new couldn’t get too many questions answered.

[Michael Todd]

Actually, the 16 bay chassis is from Promise, the 5 bay is a generic box, could be the same as what Bob Z linked to. I believe the 5 bay has no on board RAID ability, that’s all achieved from the PCIe card or Mobo.