High-performance Digital Intermediate solution available from Globalstor

Globalstor Data, a leading provider of high speed, scaleable mass storage solutions, has announced the introduction of the new FibreStor-DI.
Designed specifically for the high performance digital video storage and playback requirements of HD, Digital Intermediate, colour correction, and other eCinema and video applications, this new Fibre to Fibre Channel RAID storage solution provides sustained raw performance levels well above 700MB/sec under RAID 5, making the FibreStor-DI perfectly suited for Spirit 2K, DaVinci 2K and other applications requiring real time 2K Playback/Record.
FibreStor-DI includes a dual RAID controller on a separate 1U rack, two 16 bay chassis, 32 Fibre channel drives (73, 147 and 300GB) and supports RAID levels 0, 1, (0+1), 3, 5, 10, 30, 50, NRAID, and JBOD. To virtually insure zero downtime, FibreStor-DI consists of several hot-swappable components, including dual power supplies, dual RAID controller canisters, dual cooling modules, IO node modules, battery units and management interface modules.
“The uncompressed real time capability of the FibreStor-DI on any OS platform; including Windows, MAC and IRIX, make this the ideal solution for the whole film process,” said Scott Leif, President of Globalstor Data. “Whether it’s used for scanning a negative, for noise and scratch removal, for colour correction or even conversion to any of the many transmission standards, FibreStor-DI can handle the throughput requirements.
"This is definitely a big step forward in assuring smooth workflow implementation at any of the many facilities engaged in digital intermediate creation; without high cost typically associated with such a solution.”
Moderately priced, this enterprise class solution is designed for critical applications such as the creation of special effects including 3-D and ultimate compositing, as well as ending with a film recorder to create film.
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