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Whether you’re working in video and film,
editing audio, or creating effects and motion graphics, take full advantage of
the high performance of Xsan 2 from ingest and capture to final output.
Digitize with zero dropped frames
With Xsan, you’ll get the consistent,
high-bandwidth drive performance that capturing video or audio data from tape
to a digital storage system — the ingest or capture process — demands.
Your SAN can accurately capture video or audio data from an ingest station (or
multiple ingest stations) without frame drops.
Flexible editing
With Xsan, every editor on a project has
concurrent access to source media files and never needs to transfer this data
between stations. If your company lands another project, simply install Xsan
on additional systems to let new editors use the SAN. Each Mac accesses shared
files on the SAN as if the storage were directly attached. Thus, working from
a SAN eliminates data duplication between systems and reduces your storage
needs. When you complete a project, simply reserve bandwidth to the SAN for
the finishing workstation.
Working with bandwidth
Xsan lets you work well within the bandwidth
required per video stream for the most common editing formats.
Effective storage
Xsan makes it easy for you to set storage
policies and allocate different classes of storage to different purposes
without forcing your editors to adhere to onerous rules. Affinities let you
set up folders in a volume that direct files to specific storage devices. For
example, a scratch data folder can direct files to RAID 0 storage, the
finished works folder can direct files to RAID 1 storage, and a capture or
ingest folder can direct data to RAID 5 storage for a good balance between
speed and protection.
Simple solutions for complex networks
Xsan provides powerful SAN benefits
with Apple ease of use. Xsan Admin helps you with storage area network setup,
putting complex network topology in a simple graphical user interface. You can
control access to sensitive files with user and group privileges, as well as
set up usage quotas on a per-user or per-group basis. Xsan Admin will notify
you via pager or email if a particular event occurs. Event notification
options include the following: your capture/ingest or finishing station nears
its storage quota, a controller failover occurs, a Fibre Channel connection
fails, free space falls below a set percentage of available space, or a user
or group exceeds its soft quota.
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