ATTO Technology FastStream SC 5300 Performance Benchmark

Configuration
ATTO FastStream SC 5300 Appliance
RAID Storage Controller
2 DVRAID Virtual Drives
12 Hitachi SCSI 72GB, 15k RPM drives
Dual 4 Gb Fibre Channel Host Interface
Firmware Version 2.1
Host Configuration
Host Machine – HP XW8200
Host Processor – 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon
RAM – 2 GB
Host Adapter - ATTO Celerity 42XS Fibre Channel
ATTO Express Power Center Software
Application Details
IOMeter
ATTO Benchmark Tool
ATTO Express Power Center Software
128 kB Interleave
Operating on MS Windows XP Pro
Application Metrics
Supports 11 Streams of Uncompressed
Standard Definition video via Avid Media
Composer Adrenaline
Supports 2 Streams of Uncompressed 10-bit
High Definition Video plus Alpha Channel title
Supports 11 streams of Avid DNx HD Video
Avid MediaDock Ultra320

Performance Benchmark

ATTO's FastStream SC 5300 Data Protection
Storage Solution for Avid Storage Solutions
XW8200 Workstation
with ATTO Celerity 42XS
Host Adapter Installed
ATTO F S
AST TREAM
Storage Appliance
ATTO Technology, Inc. ● 155 CrossPoint Parkway ● Amherst, NY
716.691.1999 ● fax: 716.691.9353 ● www.attotech.com
Framework
In today's non-linear editing environments media
assets are becoming more and more critical. The
ATTO FastStream
customers with existing non-RAID protected solutions
a new level of protection while ensuring that the project
workflow remains unaffected. This solution also allows
customers to leverage their existing investment in
SCSI based storage while adding data protection. This
ensures that Video Editors will have constant, reliable
access to their media even in the event of a drive
failure. Global Hot Spares are available and provide
customers a higher level of data integrity.
FastStream SC appliances solve the challenge of non-
protected data while maintaining or exceeding current
performance. By using ATTO's exclusive Digital Video
RAID (DVRAID™) your digital video and audio assets
are kept safe, keeping your edits intact in case of a
drive failure. In addition, ATTO's Audio Track
Streaming (ATS™) technology allows the FastStream
SC to support the editing of multiple tracks of audio in
stressful editing environments while managing latency.
The FastStream SC Appliance line features a mature
RAID stack used in ATTO products for over five years.
Improving on industry-certified technology to create the
FastStream SC, performance enhancing features such
as caching, deferred writes, write coalescing and host
transfer scatter combine to give the FastStream
blazing fast performance.
The tested hardware / software storage solution
consisted of a FastStream SC 5300 Storage Appliance
connected to an Avid MediaDock 12 bay Ultra320
SCSI array in split bus mode.
contained 12 Hitachi disk drives with 6 connected to
each U320 bus of the FastStream SC 5300.
SC
FastStream was configured as two virtual DVRAID
devices and mapped to individual 4 Gb Fibre Channel
ports. The FastStream SC 5300 was then connected
to the Celerity 42XS PCI-X Host Adapter.
ports were then striped with ATTO's Express Power
Center software. This software allows for large block
transfers in a Windows striped environment.
increases overall performance while maintaining the
data protection of the FastStream SC 5300.
Additionally, performance was measured with IOMeter
using a RAW disk system with no file system installed.
Storage Solution provides
The MediaDock
The FC
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