ATTO Technology FastStream SC 5300 Features & Benefits

For over four decades, Thirteen/WNET New York has
been asking big questions. And in so doing, it has en-
couraged viewers to ask illuminating questions of them-
selves and their world. This is the vision that drives the
non-commercial, educational, inspiring public television
that Thirteen/WNET provides.
Each year, Thirteen, shares its vision with millions of
viewers in the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut tri-
state area and -- via the Public Broadcasting Service
(PBS) -- with people in every corner of the United States.
Their business is offering viewers a forum for exploring
ideas, reveling in art and culture, and marveling at the
world's wonders, as they do every year without fail.
Beamed coast-to-coast via PBS, Thirteen/WNET's signa-
ture series continues to form the core of the nationwide
public television schedule: AMERICAN MASTERS profiled
the figures who have defined American culture; GREAT
PERFORMANCES thrilled audiences with soaring dance,
theater, opera, and music; and NATURE led viewers on
unforgettable journeys of discovery.
As Thirteen's show repertoire expanded so did the risk of
losing data. With the increase in productions at Thir-
teen/WNET, the risk and impact of potential data loss
had become critical. Jeff Dockendorff, Associate Direc-
tor of Engineering, now had the challenge of finding a
solution that would be able to support the requirements
going forward.
"The first system that needed
to be upgraded was an Avid
Nitris used for HD on-line edit-
ing attached to RAID 0 SCSI
based storage," stated Jeff
Dockendorff. "Changing storage
was not an option for us. In
addition, our current system
was limited in the amount of
space and could not be easily
moved due to the complexity of
SCSI cabling."
Power Behind the Storage
FastStream
High Performance, Data Protection to
Thirteen/WNET New York
" The ATTO FastStream addressed all of
the identified needs; it provided the
much-needed data protection against
drive failure, it is easy to manage and
configure, and can support the need to
easily integrate with existing storage.
The added bonus is all of this without
any performance loss," says Jeff
Dockendorff, Associate Director of Engi-
neering at Thirteen WNET New York.
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SC 5300 Delivers
Thirteen needed to find a high-performance, stand-alone
solution that added data protection, could be seamlessly
integrated into the Avid storage environment, would al-
low for easy disconnecting and connecting of the alter-
nate storage, and offered a solid set of management
features. In addition, fast access to the show being ed-
ited was required.
"High Definition uncompressed non-linear editing re-
quires large amounts of storage. Each second takes
about 160 MBytes at 10-bit uncompressed. That ex-
pands to about 10 GBytes per minute and 600 GBytes
per hour. Our 24 disk Ultra 320 Storage array can only
record about four hours of material, and each client usu-
ally brings with them at least half that much material for
their project. In addition, we usually keep each client's
material, pending changes, for about two weeks and can
only hold two clients' materials on our existing storage.
One of our requirements is the need to be able to dis-
connect one client's storage and connect another's. We
like to do this with Fibre Channel fiber optic connectivity,"
states Jeff Dockendorff.
After looking at his options, Jeff Dockendorff selected
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the ATTO FastStream
FastStream Storage Appliance provided instant RAID
parity protection to his SCSI storage device and seam-
lessly integrated into his current Avid environment. With
Storage Appliance. The ATTO
dual 4-Gigabit Fibre Channel
host interfaces and dual Ul-
tra320 SCSI device interfaces,
the ATTO FastStream solved
Thirteen/WNET's need for easy
installation.
The extensive management
features allow for existing RAID
volumes to be expanded, mir-
rors added or RAID levels
changed dynamically
keeping all data intact. Storage
can be added as needed, when
needed.
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