OpenDrives unveiled its open ecosystem solution at the 2022 NAB Show. Companies providing storage systems and software for network storage (besides those mentioned above) include AIC, Asustor, Avid, CineRAID, Facilis, MagStor, OpenDrives, Pixitmedia, Promise, QNAP, Rocstor, Stardom and TrueNAS. This drives overall storage requirements, as in the graph below.Ĭompanies providing storage systems for local storage for M&E applications include G-Tech (WDC), LaCie (Seagate), OWC, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba. Let’s look at our projections for digital storage for post production.ĭemand for storage in post production is increasing thanks to more multi-camera, 360-degree projects higher resolutions more bits per frame and higher frame rates.

Post production, including video editing, is a major driver for various M&E storage offerings. For this installment we will focus on developments in storage systems, storage software and cloud storage for media and entertainment applications. Last time we looked hard disk drives (HDDs), solid state drives (SSDs), media cards and related solutions and archiving products, many of which were introduced at NAB 2022. Welcome to the second part of our coverage of digital storage technology for media and entertainment.

For tiered storage in the cloud, R&S SpycerNode2 includes S3 export protocols, making it easy to build hybrid storage architectures. Rohde & Schwarz’s VSA (virtual storage access) technology provides complete failover protection and uninterrupted data. A single pair of R&S SpycerNode2 controllers can manage as many as four chassis for a maximum capacity of 6.7 petabytes, and users can network SpycerNode2 systems for even larger capacities if required. The 5U disk drive chassis can be populated in blocks of 28 disk drives (including SSD) up to a maximum of 84 drives. The companion R&S SpycerPAM project-driven production management software provides seamless interworking with third-party software like Adobe and Avid editing systems. Caching content also boosts performance for network-attached clients like edit workstations, which communicate over standard protocols like SMB, allowing facilities to build the environments and workflows they require without performance constraints.

Rohde & Schwarz added this new functionality in direct response to user demands. While the original concept of R&S SpycerNode had to do with channel playout, increasingly it is used where high-performance, high-resilience storage is needed in post.

In post applications calling for multiple reads, like editing and audio, the ability to cache regularly used content reduces the demand on the disk array, ensuring a much better performance for all users and managing bandwidth through the system. The new architecture makes it possible to add Dynamic Media Cache, high-performance caching on NVM Express modules in the RAID controllers. This architecture, according to R&S, boosts RAID and delivery performance by as much as 50% in 4K applications. The new model retains the 5U storage appliance but adds two 1U RAID control servers for redundancy. R&S SpycerNode2 takes advantage of Spectrum Scale’s capabilities in media-focused applications. It adds new flexibility and scalability, advanced media performance and enhanced connectivity that makes it ideal for a broad range of server applications.Ĭentral to the success of the R&S SpycerNode family is that it is built on high-performance computing (HPC) technologies from IBM, including the Spectrum Scale RAID software. Rohde & Schwarz will be at NAB next month with a new version of its R&S SpycerNode storage platform, SpycerNode2, which builds on the high-performance computing technologies of the original.

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