RAID-Storage

(not only for video editing)

"Imagine a RAID as a hard drive that doesn't fail, reads and writes at breakneck speed and has 8x more capacity than the largest hard drive on the market."

NEW! With our SEGURO® RAID hard disks up to 96 TeraByte are now possible! These hard drives also come with a 5-year warranty. You can't keep your projects ready for access more securely.

The RAID is practical and uncomplicated to use!
Under Windows it appears as a logical drive letter, for example F:, This can be up to 96 TeraByte in size and is exceptionally fast (up to > 1,000MB/s)!

If desired, you can divide this huge capacity into several drive letters. You can then use these logical drives for your own purposes, e. g. for photos, video, projects, etc.



 The advantages of a mass storage solution based on RAID
(Redundant Array of Independent Disks)

Integrated storage solution based on RAID, an error-tolerant (redundant) mass storage method, consists of an array of individual (independent) hard disks. This combines several advantages for processing the large amounts of data produced in video production:
Large capacities (up to 96 TeraByte) with very high speeds (up to more than 1,100MB/sec) which are also fault-tolerant and flexibly divisible.
This clever solution is included in every* VIDEOSTATION® and allows a variety of variations for processing high-resolution ingest (4K, 6K and 8K codecs or RAW formats).
*VIDEOSTATION® Montaña has lower capacities and speeds 

How do I decide what type of hard disk storage to purchase for my video editing?

The demand for hard disk space with terabyte capacities has long been the norm for video editing. Individual hard disks are unsuitable due to the risk of failure and solid state disks (SDS) are expensive and slow down over time. So which criteria are decisive for the purchase?

- Speed: If you want to start both Windows and powerful applications lightning-fast, you nowadays rely on a solid state disk (SSD). The increase is the RAID contained in every VIDEOSTATION®, only with comparatively much larger capacities and long-term reliability. It makes your storage fast and large enough for high-resolution, uncompressed video. If you work with at least Full HD video, this can become a criterion. Because it also depends on the codec. For example, a video-capable memory becomes obligatory for AVIDs DNxHD. VIDEOSTATION® delivers up to 80 terabytes of storage from the factory with data transfer rates of up to 1,100MB/s!

- Interface: Which interface is available at all? Common on PCs and MACs are USB, eSATA, Firewire 400 and 800 as well as the network interface. Newer versions are Thunderbolt, M. 2, USB 3.1, iSCSI and AoE (ATA over Ethernet).

- Capacity: How much storage do I need? Do I want to delete my projects immediately after completion? Or should they be archived? It may even be material that has been collected over the years or is to be stored for such a long time.

- Fault tolerance: The fault tolerance ensures that the data remains undamaged in the event of a hard disk failure and can also be processed further. The combination of several hard disks (RAID) makes this possible.

	With hard drive removable frames integrated in the front, you can also import external footage quickly or archive your own project data. In this way, VIDEOSTATION® always provides sufficient storage capacity, which is easily accessible at all times without tools.
	RAID 5 (blue) combined with RAID 1 (green): RAID 5 is the large, fast and yet fault-tolerant memory with e. g. 4 x 3 =12 terabyte = 12,000 gigabyte. Finished projects are safely stored on the mirrored RAID 1 with e. g. 2x5 Terabyte and archived if required.
	RAID 5 (blue) combined with RAID 1 (green) and an archive hard disk (red): As in the previous example additionally combined with a single hard disk for retrieval with subsequent physical archiving, e. g. in a fireproof data cabinet.
	RAID 5 (blue) combined with RAID 0 (yellow): RAID 0 provides SSD speed for importing digital content that requires high bandwidth, such as uncompressed HDV or 4K video. Afterwards, the raw data can be moved to the blue area in order to work error-tolerant in the project.
	2x RAID 5 (blue) with up to 36 Terabyte Gigabyte each combined for different projects or as double fault tolerant RAID 10. A RAID group of 3 single hard disks each can be exchanged for archiving without the need for a tool.
	Maximum fault-tolerant memory expansion in the large RAID-5 network with e. g. 8 x 12TB = 96 Terabyte = 96,000 Gigabyte.
RAID 0 = stripe = combination of at least 2 hard disks without error tolerance (very fast) RAID 1 = mirroring = combination of at least 2 disks with fault tolerance (only 50% total capacity) RAID 5 = combination of at least 3 disks with fault tolerance (less total capacity, fast) RAID 10 = combination of RAID 1 and RAID 0 RAID 50 = combination of RAID 5 and RAID 0

In order to store video and output of multiple tracks* from high-resolution material to uncompressed streams, the storage hardware must be carefully selected.

VIDEOSTATION® is inherently equipped with such a video memory and can be extended externally to more than 100 terabytes. In addition, the high storage speeds that are not attainable with normal PCs are possible.

*Number of parallel video tracks (with 250MB/s)
Video Stream Type	Raid 0		Raid 5
DV (1 stream=3.6 MB/sec)	16		16
DV50 (1 stream=7.2 MB/sec):	12		12
DVCPRO HD 720p 59.94 (1 stream=14.4 MB/sec):	9		9
DVCPRO HD 1080i 29.97 (1 stream=16 MB/sec):	16		14
HDV 720p† (1 stream=2.4 MB/sec):	16		10
HDV 1080i 29.97† (1 stream=3.1 MB/sec):	8		8
Uncompressed 8-bit NTSC (1 stream=21.0 MB/sec):	12		8
Uncompressed 10-bit NTSC (1 stream=28.0 MB/sec):	12		8
Uncompressed 8-bit 720 HD (1 stream=55.2 MB/sec):	6		5
Uncompressed 10-bit 720 HD (1 stream=73.6 MB/sec):	4		3
Uncompressed 8-bit 1080i HD (1 stream=124.3 MB/sec):	3		2
Uncompressed 10-bit 1080 HD (1 stream=165.7 MB/sec):	3		2
2K (2048 X 1556)LOG RGB (1 stream=309.0 MB/sec):	2		1

• Up to 96 TeraByte (= 96.000 Gigabyte)
• Error tolerance of the stored video data (a hard disk can fail without data loss)
• Acoustic/visual alarm in case of hard disk failure
• Replacement of defective hard disks during operation
• Monitoring and management via Internet browser