ATTO Technology R30F Manuel utilisateur

For More Information:

www.ATTOTech.com

To Purchase ATTO products:

www.ATTOStore.com

(716) 691-1999

Power Behind the Storage

ATTO ExpressSAS RAID Adapter

High-Performance Data Protection

for Biscardi Creative Media

High Definition media production calls for high definition

storage solutions. Biscardi Creative Media is an award-

winning production company based in Atlanta, Georgia

that has collected many Emmy, Telly, Aurora and Cable

Ace Awards for excellence in high-definition broadcast/

post production.

With projects such as Food Network’s popular series

“Good Eats”, and “This American Land” for PBS, a pro-

duction company like this can’t afford to invest in a stor-

age solution that’s not reliable enough to handle an in-

creasing broadcast HD/SD post-production workload.

“With so much broadcast work and other deadline-

intensive projects, we simply cannot afford to have any

storage issues,” says owner Walter Biscardi. “Is the

storage going to be there when I turn it on tomorrow?”

Biscardi Creative was using an older 2TB Fibre Channel

array that had been their workhorse for 2 years, but they

knew the time had come to expand their storage

capacity.

To address the problem, Biscardi evaluated several

SATA and FireWire 800 arrays, but “we simply could not

find a good speed in the available SATA options.”

Over the course of a year, Walter and his team had pur-

chased and tested many different brands of storage so-

lutions. Unfortunately, they were running into the same

problem: too many issues with stor-

age, especially when it came to reli-

ability. As Walter found out, “Fast

speeds are nice, but when arrays dis-

appear off the desktop or just fail for

no particular reason, all the speed in

the world doesn’t matter.”

While Biscardi was testing new SAS/

SATA arrays, he noticed MaxxDigital

provided the ATTO ExpressSAS R380

RAID Adapter as part of the direct

attached solution for high-performance

parity protection. “In the past, I had

used ATTO Host Adapters for SCSI arrays, so I was fa-

miliar with the company.” During testing, Biscardi ran

their arrays at RAID 5 to get some good protection with-

out sacrificing too much speed.

“We found that the ATTO ExpressSAS R380 contributed

to speeds of almost double of what was provided by a

competitor’s product. By using the R380 RAID adapter

to directly connect the Maxx SATA RaidPro 8TB array,

we are able to obtain Write speeds of 488MB/sec. and

Read speeds of 429MB/sec. in a RAID 5 configuration

using a 4-Gb

file and

1920x1080

10-Bit RGB

frame size.

In addition,

ATTO’s cus-

tomer sup-

port actively

assisted us

throughout

our testing process. It was very smooth and easy to set

up the card and to make sure we got the highest speed

possible for both uncompressed and compressed HD

editing,” says Biscardi.

The R380 helped them achieve their solution because,

according to Biscardi, it was “the best combination of

speed and protection in RAID 5

mode.”

“The marriage of the Maxx RaidPro

8TB array with the ATTO ExpressSAS

R380 offers editors the ability to

achieve multiple streams of uncom-

press HD video with RAID 5 protec-

tion. And, the stability and unbeliev-

able performance achieved with this

solution comes at an extraordinarily

inexpensive cost.” states Ron Amborn

of Maxx Digital.

“We found that the ATTO ExpressSAS

R380 contributed to speeds of almost double

of what was provided by a competitor’s prod-

uct. In addition, ATTO’s customer support

actively assisted us throughout our testing

process. It was very smooth and easy to set

up the card and to make sure we got the high-

est speed possible for both uncompressed

and compressed HD editing,” states Walter

Biscardi, owner of Biscardi Creative Media.

For More Information:

www.ATTOTech.com

To Purchase ATTO products:

www.ATTOStore.com

(716) 691-1999

ATTO Technology, Inc.

155 CrossPoint Parkway ∙ Amherst, NY 14068

Tel. 716.691.1999 ∙ Fax. 716.691.9393

Power Behind the Storage

Storage Performance Solution Partners:

For his return on investment, Biscardi expects their fluid

storage solution to maintain its consistency. “We have

the technical knowledge and support of ATTO to stand

behind their product to assist if ever required.”

Solution Synopsis

Challenges

With the risk of losing data in a high-definition media

environment, an affordable, high-performance solution

was needed that added data protection and could be

seamlessly integrated into a SATA storage environment.

Solution

The ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter provided

RAID parity protection and seamlessly integrated into

SATA storage.

The R380 is a low-profile RAID adapter providing 3-Gb

SATA/SAS connectivity with integrated RAID support and

flexible port configurations. The R380 is engineered for

the most demanding digital media applications – satisfy-

ing data protection requirements in a high-performance

environment.

ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter features:

• 8-Port user selectable (8 external ports)

• Data transfer rates of up to 3-Gb/sec. per port

• Highly configurable integrated RAID 0,1,4,5,10,50,

JBOD and ATTO’s exclusive DVRAID™ support

• Mac, Windows or Linux drivers available

Products Used

ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter

Maxx RaidPro SATA 8TB Array (7200rpm drives)

Mac Pro Quad 3.0 - Mac OS 10.4.10

AJA KONA 3

Investment Protection

As storage needs change, the ExpressSAS RAID

Adapter’s SATA/SAS flexibility allows for its continued

use as organizations transition either wholly or partially

from a SATA to a SAS storage environment.

Also Available

ATTO ExpressSAS R348 RAID Adapter

(4 internal and 4 external ports or 8 internal ports)

ExpressSAS RAID Adapter—High Performance Data Protection

Biscardi Creative Media MaxxDigital

Biscardi Creative rack unit with Maxx RaidPro

and ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter

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