Accusys ExaSAN Receives Blackmagic Design Certification

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(Free-Press-Release.com) November 18, 2011 -- (HSINCHU, Taiwan – November 11, 2011)
Blackmagic Design is a recognized leader in video editing products, converters and routers for television broadcast and post-production. Their DaVinci Resolve color correction platform has been used in everything from feature films to television production, to documentaries and commercials. Today, Accusys is pleased to announce that the Accusys A08S-PS, 8 Bay RAID storage system has been certified by Blackmagic Design for use with their DaVinci Resolve on Mac high-end color grading correction workstations.

Working effectively with the DaVinci Resolve from Blackmagic Design requires a storage solution with the flexibility to meet changing high bandwidth environments. Meeting these demands, and ideal for high-end video-editing applications, is the Accusys A08S-PS storage system. It has an 8 Bay tower RAID storage system supporting eight (8) 3Gb SAS/SATA II disk drives and is able to provide approx. 780MB/s of throughput in RAID 5 configuration. Its Accusys RAID engine is powered by Intel Xscale technology and the A08S-PS supports six types of RAID levels (0, 1, 5, 6, 0+1 and JBOD). A min. flow of 300MB/s is required to process 2k DPK file and 3D stereoscopic, which doubles storage and bandwidth requirements. The A08S-PS satisfies all these requirements for video capture, color grading, color correction, editing and playback workflows. The Accusys A08S-PS storage solution and your Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve provide everything your post production studio requires to meet the artistic and technical demands of the media post-production industry.

Combined with the Accusys SW08-G2 Compact Solution package, the A08S-PS storage system is expandable to up to 8 workstations accessing storage simultaneously to easily upgrade shared media content access. Equipped with an optional dual port HBA, the A08S-PS is able to reach approx. 1400MB/s and 48TB of storage capacity by striping two A08S-PS systems. The Accusys A08S-PS storage system greatly reduces waiting time for data file transfers and increases productivity through shared storage. Best of all, it allows creative professionals to work with multiple streams of uncompressed HD video to complete projects at record speeds.

"Given its dominating market share and reputation in video editing products, Blackmagic Design's solutions are actually quite easy to afford, and the Accusys ExaSAN Series, both DAS and SAN, targets this very same market. The cooperation between Blackmagic and Accusys not only enables both products to work together with maximum efficiency, but also passes these benefits directly to the end user," said Fred Deng, Senior Sales Manager of Accusys.