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Sonnet's
Fusion 500p eSATA RAID & Card:
4 Terrabyte 10 bay
drive array for HD Uncompressed
call for pricing
SATA
RAIDs are bringing high speed and value to the HD post-production
workflow. Less expensive than fibre channel and often just as
speedy, these compact units can keep your project running strong
on a budget. Now with the eSATA interface, you only have one cable
per enclosure to connect to your G5, which makes for a much cleanre
interface and studio setting. We've tested two of these enclosures
(populated with 10 drives) with 10-bit uncompressed 1080i HD footage
and it breezed through it, both on ingest and output. Consider
these to be the very viable affordable alternative to fiber channel
systems. We can ship these anywhere in the US in a nicely padded
hard case, too!
Here
are the specs from Sonnet:
Is it just your imagination, or are your data storage needs
multiplying faster than the national debt? Get your storage demands
under control and think inside our box! Sonnet's Fusion 500P 5-bay
Serial ATA (SATA) drive enclosure combines support for the fastest
SATA drives with hot-swap versatility in a package built for performance.
Fusion 500P is compact, but its small footprint will make a big
impression—with its powerful built-in universal power supply,
it is a great solution for anyone looking to store large amounts
of data in a little package.
One Cable to Connect Them All
Fusion 500P employs a high performance SATA II port multiplier
to manage the enclosed drives and connects to a SATA host controller
card through a single port*—connect up to 5 drives to your
computer with just a single eSATA cable! Auto-negotiation for
3 Gb/s and 1.5 Gb/s drives guarantees no switches, jumpers, or
control panels need to be set, so installation is as simple as
securing the drives to the trays.
Maximum Flexibility
With support for 3 Gb/s drives and backward compatibility with
1.5 Gb/s drives, you'll get maximum flexibility in drive choice
for years to come. The five hot-swap drive trays offer great freedom
for building your own storage solution—you don't get locked
into a specific configuration. Start out with a single drive for
simple data storage and then add additional ones as the need arises.
Or, fill the enclosure with five drives up to 750GB each to create
a huge 3.75 Terabyte striped RAID set—combine two or more
for uncompressed 10-bit HD video capture and editing—Fusion
500P is truly versatile. Connect up to four Fusion 500P enclosures
to a Tempo SATA E4P or Tempo SATA X4P host controller to create
the ultimate storage solution—using today's highest capacity
drives, you'll have 15TB of data storage at your disposal! Need
even more storage space? Pick up additional trays so you can add
drives to your arsenal for daily backups or project management.
Form Meets Function
Fusion 500P is attractive and user friendly. Its handsome door
hides the drive trays, yet status indicator LEDs for each drive
shine through. The drive trays have built-in locking levers that
double as handles to make swapping drives easy. Or if you choose,
you can secure each drive tray in place with the built-in locks;
great for added security. And the whisper-quiet fan that cools
everything is even hot-swappable.
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