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SAN - optical unit q's
I am looking for a SAN/NAS unit for video storage. The unit must have
a capacity of 50TB. Also looking for an optical autoloader for offline storage and backup of the SAN unit. It's capacity must be at least 250TB. Anyone have any recommendations? Thanks! |
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Tom Petrocelli President Technology Alignment Partners PH: 716-633-8346There are several vendors who specialize in storage for video. What type of "video" do you mean? Broadcast? Production or post-production? Internet streaming? The best choice depends on what the application is. In some case a general SAN array will do. in others you need something special such as those sold by SGI, DataDirect, certain HDS models, etc. Tom Petrocelli President Technology Alignment Partners, Inc. On 2/1/2005 11:45 AM, bob & joe wrote: I am looking for a SAN/NAS unit for video storage. The unit must have a capacity of 50TB. Also looking for an optical autoloader for offline storage and backup of the SAN unit. It's capacity must be at least 250TB. Anyone have any recommendations? Thanks! |
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You will also need to consider what kind of software tools you are
going to use to manage your offline storage. These tools can be harder to deal with than the storage itself. Also, if the primary use of the offline storage is for archive and backup you may want to consider using tape as opposed to optical storage. The optical arrays I am aware of don't quite reach that capacity due to the lower density of optical media vs tape. Dr. Kevin Kirmse, PhD EE Principal Engineer Infrastor Tech Corp PH: 1-609-683-8844 |
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This is 15fps surveillance video. It will be used as storage for 85
cameras. At 4k image sizes for 85 cams it will hold 3 months of video. The optical juke will backup and offline store 16 months. On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 19:30:25 -0500, Tom Petrocelli wrote: Tom Petrocelli President Technology Alignment Partners PH: 716-633-8346There are several vendors who specialize in storage for video. What type of "video" do you mean? Broadcast? Production or post-production? Internet streaming? The best choice depends on what the application is. In some case a general SAN array will do. in others you need something special such as those sold by SGI, DataDirect, certain HDS models, etc. Tom Petrocelli President Technology Alignment Partners, Inc. On 2/1/2005 11:45 AM, bob & joe wrote: I am looking for a SAN/NAS unit for video storage. The unit must have a capacity of 50TB. Also looking for an optical autoloader for offline storage and backup of the SAN unit. It's capacity must be at least 250TB. Anyone have any recommendations? Thanks! |
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bob & joe wrote in message . ..
This is 15fps surveillance video. It will be used as storage for 85 cameras. At 4k image sizes for 85 cams it will hold 3 months of video. The optical juke will backup and offline store 16 months. On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 19:30:25 -0500, Tom Petrocelli wrote: Tom Petrocelli President Technology Alignment Partners PH: 716-633-8346There are several vendors who specialize in storage for video. What type of "video" do you mean? Broadcast? Production or post-production? Internet streaming? The best choice depends on what the application is. In some case a general SAN array will do. in others you need something special such as those sold by SGI, DataDirect, certain HDS models, etc. Tom Petrocelli President Technology Alignment Partners, Inc. On 2/1/2005 11:45 AM, bob & joe wrote: I am looking for a SAN/NAS unit for video storage. The unit must have a capacity of 50TB. Also looking for an optical autoloader for offline storage and backup of the SAN unit. It's capacity must be at least 250TB. Anyone have any recommendations? Thanks! SGI offer SAN/NAS/DLM solutions for large capacity storage and data migration, and have a lot of experience dealing with media serving. See http://www.sgi.com/pdfs/3693.pdf and http://www.sgi.com/pdfs/3454.pdf David |
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It's not quite 50TB, but I currently have ~29TB of LSI fiber storage
that I can make a pretty sweet deal on. This is used hardware, so the price can be pretty attractive. bob & joe wrote: I am looking for a SAN/NAS unit for video storage. The unit must have a capacity of 50TB. Also looking for an optical autoloader for offline storage and backup of the SAN unit. It's capacity must be at least 250TB. Anyone have any recommendations? Thanks! |
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Why use optical for offline storage? High end tape with good robotics
can still be faster, cheaper and more reliable in the long term. Look into "enterprise class" tape drives like StorageTek 9940 or IBM Jaguar (not sure of the model number for IBM). |
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