HIGH PERFORMANCE, COST-EFFECTIVE DATA STORAGE
Features Overview
•Speed And Performance
•Next Generation Data
Protection
•Quotas and Provisioning
•Bandwidth and IOPS
Management
•Efficient Data Storage
•Long Term Data Storage
•Zero Downtime Expansion
•Data Portability
•Data Snapshots
•Replication & Mirroring
Who Uses Open Drives
•VFX Facilities
•Film & Television
•Editorial
•Production
•On-Set Acquisition
•Digital Post-Production
•Motion Picture Studios
•Advertising Agencies
•Video Game Companies
•Digital Asset Management
•Media Libraries & Archives
In a business where budgets are shrinking and both data storage and bandwidth requirements
are ballooning, our industry’s data storage needs were not being met ... until now. The Open Drives
platform was developed to address the unique needs of the media and entertainment industry
and provide unrivalled performance at a fraction of the cost of traditional vendors.
A fast, scalable, cost-effective
and easy to manage data storage
platform purpose built for the
media & entertainment industry.
By delivering performance and flexibility at price
that makes sense, the Open Drives platform
not only allows media professionals to stay
competitive, but enables them to push the
boundaries and discover new efficiencies in their
workflows and business models.
Avalanche
Spectre
Ridgeview
Capacity
18 TB - 72 TB
72 TB - 216 TB
144 TB - 432 TB
Hard Drive Size
500 GB - 1 TB
2 TB - 8 TB
2 TB - 8 TB
Arc Cache
128 GB
512 GB
128 GB
L2 Arc Cache
980 GB
Optional
980 GB
Hot Spares
Optional
Optional
Optional
CPU
12 Core Intel Xeon
Standard Network
Config
2 x 1 GB
2 x 10 GB
2 X 40 GB
Optional Network
Config
Up to 16 x 1 GB
Up to 8 x 10 GB
2 x 40 GB (replaces standard 10 GB ports)
Infiniband
Hardware Remote
Management
IPMI 2.0 over Dedicated LAN
Max Expansion
-
3 X 270 TB Expansion Nodes
3 X 540 TB Expansion Nodes
DESIGNED BY FILMMAKERS, FOR FILMMAKERS
Product Features
Speed And Performance
For content creators and media professionals who routinely deal with massive individual files, what really matters is throughput
between the disks and the client. Open Drives systems are designed with performance in mind to handle the large files typical of the
media and entertainment industry.
Our ram-based Arc Cache dramatically reduces file seek times and systems can be configured for 1Gb, 10Gb or 40Gb ethernet to meet
your bandwidth requirements.
Open Drives systems add an additional layer of high-speed SSD caching, called L2Arc Cache, making read operations blisteringly fast
and freeing up the spinning disks to focus on write operations.
Next Generation Data Protection
Never lose a file! Open Drives products use a 256-bit checksum to constantly verify the integrity your data. If an error is detected, the
correct data is fetched from a redundant copy and the file system automatically heals itself. Data corruption and bit rot are thing of
the past.
Efficient Data Storage
Use your drives more efficiently. Open Drives uses variable block sizes to store your data instead of the fixed block size of traditional
file systems. No more wasted space from mismatched data sizes! Customers report as much as 20% reduction in used space when
migrating from traditional data storage vendors to Open Drives.
Optional data compression reduces required disk space and increases disk throughput as much as 50%. Our on-the-fly data-type
detection automatically enables compression for files that can be compressed. Ideal for uncompressed image data such as DPX and
OpenEXR.
Long Term Data Storage
Open Drives systems are designed to go the distance. We over-engineer our hardware to ensure long-term performance and reliability
and a 128-bit file system provides virtually unlimited scalability.
Zero Downtime Expansion
Aurora systems can be easily and instantly expanded with our Corona devices. A live production system can be expanded in-place
without interruption or downtime.
Data Portability
Need to move a large data set from a one system to another? Or even one location to another? Data pools can be easily and instantly
exported from one Open Drives system and imported to another.
Data Snapshots
Concerned about changes or updates to your data? Need to manage backups in a high availability environment? Data snapshots help
you manage both. Automate point-in-time snapshots before making any critical changes and know that you can roll-back and recover
files from any snapshot. Snapshots also prevent version skew when backing up your data from a live system. Create a snapshot and
perform your backup of that point in time instead of from the live data.
Replication & Mirroring
Need to keep your data synchronized between two or more locations? Concerned about disaster recovery or high-availability?
Synchronous and asynchronous block level replication and mirroring are easy to configure between Open Drives systems.
Flexible Architecture
With support for a variety of connectivity and protocol options, Open Drives storage can be configured to integrate into existing
workflows.
Network Protocols
•SMB/CIFS 2.2
•NFS v3 and v4 (UDP or TCP)
•FTP
•SNMP
•HTTP
•SSH
•NIS
Client Compatibility
•Windows
•Apple
•Linux
•Unix
Domain Control
•Active Directory
•Apple OS X LDAP/Kerberos
•NFS v4 ACLs