Grass Valley's K2 10G RAID Storage System, you'll fully optimize your media server system, significantly increase capacity and bandwidth, and cost-effectively support multiple online, nearline and standalone shared storage configurations. With SAS storage drives, 8Gbps Fiber Channel hardware RAID controllers, redundant connectivity, hot-swappable power supplies and high-performance bandwidth delivery, you'll have the highest scalable capacity and performance you want, with the bandwidth and redundancy you need.
- Multiple options to meet the exacting requirements for online, production, and nearline storage
- Storage architecture supports 10k RPM SAS drives for highest-performance online storage or 7.2k SAS drives for lowest cost/GB of storage
- Uses the latest IT technologies for best price/performance:
- 10Gbps Ethernet connectivity
- 8Gbps Fiber channel connectivity
- Highest bandwidth in the industry
- Scalable bandwidth - easily add to existing systems
- Scalable storage - easily add non-destructively to existing systems
- High availability - redundant components include hot-swappable power supplies, fans, disk drives, RAID controllers, mirrored system drives
- Systems can be built simply with fewer components, in less rack space, for higher reliability
- Open-storage technology supports industry standards:
- CIFS for broad access to video/audio files
- MXF/GXF/QuickTime wrappers
- FTP for standard file transfer operability
- Built-in QOS with dynamic-bandwidth allocation guarantees available video/audio bandwidth while sharing the rest for edit clients and file transfers
- 8Gbps Fiber Channel RAID controllers offer highest performance available
- Advanced eco-friendly energy saving technology:
- Low-power CPU
- Autonomous control
- 80PLUS GOLD certified high-efficiency power supply
- Incorporates as many power saving components as possible
- A significant reduction in the total number of components.
- Can be used in 40°C (104°F) environments, reducing cooling costs