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Mike Schuyler
September 12, 2006 at 5:21 pm in reply to: Are 2 drives striped enough for SD 10bit /RAID 3/5 drive solutions?

Hi Steve,

I saw this thread and thought you may want to hear for one of the manufactures.

Medea offers a range of products of both Raid0 and Raid3 SCSI and Fibre solutions. The product you would be most interested in based on your need for protection is a product called the RTR320. This is a 5 dive SCSI Raid3 array built on an Ultra 320 controller. It has a sustained rate (from the front of the drive to the back of the drive) of 160 MB/Sec and burst rates over 200 MB/Sec. You get the capacity of 4 drives while one drive is dedicated data protection. With our array you can lose one drive and not lose your data or data rate which allows you to continue to edit. A lot of manufactures offer similar solutions but with a drive shutdown the performance comes to a crawl. Our array also offers MST (Multi Stream Technology) which is RAM caching system that aids in performance. A single 5 drive array is capable of 4 layers of 10 Bit SD or 4 layers of DVCPR0HD in real time.

As someone else mentioned there are other solutions out there that may be outside of the budget you specified. I would like the opportunity to speak with you directly and see if we can work something out. I can be reached at 888-296-3332 x109.

Mike Schuyler
Medea Corp
Mike Schuyler
August 24, 2006 at 6:22 pm in reply to: huge 4105 or medea FCR2…

Hi,

I saw this thread on the cow and thought I would chime in. The Medea FCR2 is capable of doing 10 bit HD on a single 5 drive to about 60-70% of the array. This is why we recommend a 10 drive FCR2X so you don’t have to worry at what percent of storage you’re at. Secondly our storage will handle fragmented data better than the Huge array will because of our MST (Multi Stream Technology) Cache system that is built into our controller. The is 64MB of RAM that is built on our controller that we do read data into allowing the drive to make bigger seeks with less chance of a dropped frame.

If you would like to get more info on this please feel free to contact me directly at 888-296-3332 x109 or michael_schuyler@avid.com

Mike Schuyler
Medea Corp.
Mike Schuyler
July 17, 2006 at 4:48 pm in reply to: Can a the Kona LH do 4:4:4 HD?

Hi All,

I thought I would chime in on this post. We have run one of our 10 drive FCR2X units on a Kona 3 running 4:4:4 at a customer site. When you stripe the two banks of 5 drives together you get a data rate of 300+ MB/Sec of raid 3 redundant storage.

Mike Schuyler
Medea Corp.