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Medea VideoRaid HDV

VideoRaid HDV is the answer for editors working in this hot new format. Avoid the dropped frames and stuttering videos that occur with FireWire drives by using VideoRaid HDV from Medéa, the most trusted name in the content creation world. Medéa has been filling your storage needs for eight years, and VideoRaid HDV is just another in the long line of storage products designed to support your video escapades. Edit with up to 4 streams of HDV without having to worry about dropped frames, and daisy chain units without having to worry about bottlenecks. Two year bumper-to-bumper warranty.

• Optimized for HDV editing!
• Supports 4 streams of HDV in real-time
• 4-drive desktop enclosure with capacities to 1,600 GB
• Single unit sustains 75 MB/second
• Scalable to multi-terabyte capacities
• Sneaker Net enabled for easy transport of digital media
• Hardware based RAID...appears as a single SCSI drive - no third party disk striping software required.
• 2-year factory warranty & unlimited technical support

High Sustained data transfer rates
VideoRaid HDV disk arrays offer up to 1000GB of storage per module and will sustain a minimum data transfer rate of 65 MB/second. This data rate provides more than enough performance to support a single-stream of uncompressed video or dual-stream, real-time effects systems at broadcast resolutions up to 500KB/frame.

Zone Stripe Technology (ZST)
All disk drives and disk arrays exhibit slower (approximately 40% slower) data rates as they fill up the outside tracks with data (video) and begin using the inside tracks. By averaging the data rate between the outside and inside tracks of the drives, Medea's proprietary Zone Stripe Technology (ZST) overcomes this limitation and assures a sustained high data rate regardless of how much video is stored on VideoRaid. Unlike competing disk arrays (or drive stripe sets) that suffer a 40% drop in data rate as they fill with video, VideoRaid sustains its high data rates from the first GB of storage to the last GB, thanks to this proprietary Zone Stripe Technology.

Easy Installation
VideoRaid RT disk arrays attach to any Ultra 2 SCSI equipped PC, Mac or SGI computer. VideoRaid HDV's on-board hardware RAID controller eliminates the need for disk striping software or configuring drive stripe sets. Each VideoRaid RT module looks like one large disk drive to your operating system and uses a single SCSI ID. Simply attach VideoRaid RT to your SCSI host adapter using the supplied cable, install the terminator (included) and initialize the array as if it were a single disk drive. That's all there is to it!

"Sneaker-Net" VideoRaidHDV from PC to PC
VideoRaid RT can be moved easily between PCs (with the same OS) since the striping control is maintained within the unit and not in the host PC.

Medea VideoRAID RT3 VideoRaid RT3 is the first ATA-based disk array optimized for content creation applications to feature a high-performance Ultra320 SCSI interface. VideoRaid RT3 supports Windows/OS X multi-stream SD and 24p HD video editng systems at an unbeatable price/performance ratio. VideoRaid RT3 1250GB $2,495.00 VideoRaid RT3 2000GB $3,995.00 VideoRaid RT3X 10 Bay rack mountable solutions VideoRaid RT3X 10 Bay Rack 2500GB $4795.00 VideoRaid RT3X 10 Bay Rack 4000GB $7,500.00

Our Highest Performance Striped Disk Array VideoRaid RT3/RT3X disk arrays feature a blazing fast single/dual-channel Ultra320 SCSI interface and support the leading professional digital content creation - from DV to HD and everything in between!

• Single or Dual-Channel ATA to Ultra320 SCSI Disk Arrays
• Ultra Performance, Ultra Low-Cost
• Supports real-time SD and HD Applications
• Plug and Play Installation
• Compact Desktop or 3U Rack Mountable Models

High Sustained Data Transfer Rates
A single 5-drive VideoRaid RT3 disk array sustains a data transfer rate up to 125 MB/second - more than enough performance to support the most demanding 10-bit real-time SD and 10-bit 1080/24p HD NLE systems. The 10-drive VideoRaid RT3X will sustain data rates over 250 MB/second!

Scalable Capacity to Over 37 Terabytes!
VideoRaid RT3/RT3X disk arrays are available in single unit capacities up to 1250/2500 GB and can be daisy-chained together to configure over 37 Terabytes (37,000 GB) of high-performance video storage on a single SCSI host adapter. That's over 400 hours of 10-bit uncompressed SD video storage!

Easy Installation
Like all Medéa arrays, VideoRaid RT3 (and each channel of RT3X) appears to your computer as one large SCSI disk drive with a single SCSI ID. Simply attach VideoRaid RT3/RT3X to a qualified SCSI host adapter and format as you would a single drive. No third party software or hardware configuration is required.

Low-Cost
VideoRaid RT3/RT3X disk arrays provide industry-leading performance yet cost significantly less than SCSI JBOD storage systems.

Tech Specs

• RT3: Ultra320 SCSI LVD
• RT3X: Dual-Channel Ultra320 SCSI LVD

• RT3: 125 MB/second
• RT3X: 250 MB/second

• Adaptec: 29160, 39160, 29320, 39320
• Atto: ExpressPCI UL3S, UL3D UL4S, UL4D