...makes video editing perfect!RAID Storage for the Video Editing PC
The smart storage model for secure storage in your video editing PC!
"Imagine RAID in your video editing PC as a hard drive that never fails, delivers extremely high read and write speeds, and offers a capacity far beyond the largest hard drive currently available. This technology makes it possible to edit even the most demanding video projects smoothly and without data loss."
Every VIDEOSTATION® video editing PC comes standard with at least two storage units. These may consist of reliable SEGURO® hard drives or especially fast HSS® SSDs. Or even a combination of both!
An SSD is usually used for the operating system, often Windows®, because SSDs are essential today for optimum system speed. The second storage unit is used to store video data and, if required, may consist of several storage devices working together in what is called a RAID array in order to maximize performance and security for your video projects.
A detailed explanation of RAID can be found further below.
As of now, SEGURO® RAID hard drives provide a total capacity of up to 288 terabytes! Exclusively from us, you get SEGURO® hard drives with a 5-year warranty. With simultaneous real-time access, they offer the safest way to store your projects!
RAID is practical and uncomplicated to use!
Under Windows, it appears as a logical drive letter, e.g. F:. This can have a size of up to 288 terabytes and offers exceptional speeds (up to 2,000 MB/s)!
The enormous capacity can be divided into several logical drives, which you can name according to your own requirements, such as Photos, Videos, Projects, etc.
The advantages of a RAID-based mass storage solution
(Redundant Array of Independent Disks)
Integrated RAID-based storage solution, a fault-tolerant (Redundant) mass storage method.
The term RAID is made up of the initial letters of the following terms: a fault-tolerant (Redundant) array of inexpensive disks. It combines several advantages that are beneficial for handling the large volumes of data generated in video production:
Large capacities (up to 288 terabytes) with very high speeds (over 2,000 MB/s), while being fault-tolerant and flexibly partitionable.
This smart solution is included in every* VIDEOSTATION® and allows a wide range of variations for editing high-resolution ingest material (4K, 6K and 8K codecs or RAW formats).
* VIDEOSTATION® Montaña has lower capacities and speeds.
And how do I decide which storage type I should buy for my video editing?
The need for hard disk storage with terabyte capacities has long become standard in video editing. Single hard drives are unsuitable because of the risk of failure. SSDs (Solid State Disks) are still expensive and become slower over time, and the cloud is not capable of real-time performance.
So which criteria matter when making a purchase decision?
- Speed: If you want both Windows and powerful applications to start at lightning speed, the standard choice today is a Solid State Disk (SSD). The next level is the RAID included in every VIDEOSTATION®, only with much larger capacities and long-term operational reliability. It makes your project storage fast and large enough for high-resolution and uncompressed video. If you work with at least Full HD video, this can already be an important factor. Codec also matters. For example, with Avid DNxHD, video-capable storage becomes essential. VIDEOSTATION® delivers factory-installed storage of up to 288 terabytes with data transfer rates of up to 2,000 MB/s!
- Interface: Which interface is available at all? Common on PCs and Macs are USB, eSATA, FireWire 400 and 800, as well as network interfaces. Newer options include Thunderbolt, M.2, USB-C, 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? Perhaps this is material that has been collected over many years or needs to be retained for just as long.
- Fault tolerance: Fault tolerance ensures that data remains intact even if one hard drive fails, and that work can continue.
A RAID array made up of several hard drives makes this possible.
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With the hard drive swap bays integrated into the front panel, you can quickly import external footage or archive your own project data. This means VIDEOSTATION® always provides sufficient storage capacity, which is conveniently accessible at any time without tools.
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RAID 5 (blue) combined with RAID 1 (green): RAID 5 is the large, fast and still fault-tolerant storage, with e.g. 4 x 4 = 16 terabytes = 16,000 gigabytes. Finished projects are securely stored on the mirrored RAID 1 with e.g. 2 x 5 terabytes and can be archived when required.
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RAID 5 (blue) combined with RAID 1 (green) and an archive drive (red): like the previous example, but additionally combined with a single hard drive for offloading and subsequent physical archiving, e.g. in a fireproof data safe. |
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RAID 5 (blue) combined with RAID 0 (yellow): RAID 0 provides SSD-like speed for importing digital content requiring high bandwidth, such as uncompressed HDV or 4K video. The raw data can then be moved into the blue area in order to continue working on the project with fault tolerance. |
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2x RAID 5 (blue), each with 36 terabytes = 36,000 gigabytes, combined for different projects or as double fault-tolerant RAID 10. One RAID group of 3 individual hard drives each can be exchanged for archiving without requiring tools. |
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Maximum fault-tolerant storage expansion in the large RAID 5 array, e.g. 8 x 12 TB = 96 terabytes = 96,000 gigabytes. |
| RAID 0 = striping = array of at least 2 hard drives without fault tolerance (very fast)
RAID 1 = mirroring = array of at least 2 hard drives with fault tolerance (only 50% total capacity) RAID 5 = array of at least 3 hard drives with fault tolerance (reduced total capacity, fast) RAID 10 = combination of RAID 1 and RAID 0 RAID 50 = combination of RAID 5 and RAID 0 |
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For storing video and outputting multiple tracks* of high-resolution material all the way up to uncompressed streams, a careful choice of storage hardware is essential.
VIDEOSTATION® is equipped with exactly this kind of video storage as standard and can be expanded externally to over 100 terabytes. It also enables the high storage speeds that are not achievable with ordinary PCs.
| *Number of simultaneous video tracks (at 250 MB/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 terabytes (= 96,000 gigabytes)
- Fault tolerance for stored video data (one hard drive can fail without data loss)
- Acoustic/optical alarm if a hard drive fails
- Replacement of defective hard drives during operation
- Monitoring and management via Internet browser
