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Old February 1st 05, 05:45 PM
bob & joe
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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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Old February 2nd 05, 01:30 AM
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Tom Petrocelli
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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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Old February 2nd 05, 06:08 PM
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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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Old February 3rd 05, 01:46 AM
bob & joe
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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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Old February 5th 05, 06:29 AM
David
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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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Old February 9th 05, 02:01 AM
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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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Old February 10th 05, 12:01 PM
Dean
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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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