PostMan Selects Facilis Terrablock

Facilis TerraBlock has recently been selected by Marc Savoie to upgrade the sharing system of The PostMan, Canada's largest production studios.
Founded by Marc Savoie in 2006, The PostMan has grown and now has two state-of-the art facilities in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
Earlier this year, Savoie upgraded The PostMan's existing shared storage system. He purchased both a TerraBlock 24 EX and 24D for 60TB of combined storage.
"TerraBlock had all the features we wanted in a shared storage system – supporting our existing Fibre Channel infrastructure and also giving us the flexibility to work with Ethernet in the future. Cost also played a huge factor, and the price per terabyte on the TerraBlock was very competitive," Savoie said.
"More is happening in the computer chain today, which means a lot of exporting and copying in file-based workflows. A strong central storage server is a must and we knew TerraBlock would provide the raw speed needed to move files through quickly."
The systems currently support Avid® Media Composer® offline editing suites, online editing suites running Avid® Symphony® and Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve, visual effects workstations with The Foundry's Nuke and Adobe® Creative Cloud™ for compositing, multiple audio editing suites running Avid® Pro Tools®, and Cache-A for archiving – all connected to TerraBlock via Fibre Channel or Ethernet.
"TerraBlock is one of the fastest storage systems available. Between the agility, economical benefits and seamlessness of it all, it's been a perfect match for our production environment," Savoie added.
"Since upgrading our suites to 16 GB Fibre Channel, we're moving files at ridiculously fast speeds and are working at an accelerated rate.
"The TerraBlocks speed up our productivity, because we don't waste any time waiting to copy, export or recompress footage. Files are available to all of us whenever we need them. Our TerraBlocks are working 24 hours a day, seven days a week, yet they continue to deliver solid performance. Having the systems in place is really like having additional employees, except it costs less."
Since installing TerraBlock, The PostMan has completed post-production on several projects including the popular HBO Canada series Call Me Fitz, which called for more than 100 deliverables to five different distributors and producers.
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