HGST, a Western Digital company and Maxx Digital today announced that Red Studios Hollywood has deployed the Maxx Digital Evo 6G 16-bay rack-mount media server. The server is powered by 4TB HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 enterprise-class hard disk drives and configured with ATTO Raid controller to support capacity, bandwidth and performance needs for streaming and screening 4K, 5K and 6K high-resolution files.
"With so many productions being shot on Red cameras, we found ourselves needing to increase our digital storage at the studio," said Hugo Cargnelutti, special ops director, Red Digital Cinema. "As a long-time friend of Red, Ron [Amborn, president of Maxx Digital] offered to see what he could do to support us. Teaming up with HGST, Maxx Digital provided us with an Evo 6G filled with 4TB HGST Ultrastar HDDs. Now, we have more than enough room to ingest, transcode, edit, and playback right here in our 4K theatre.”
A movie or TV show shot in 5K resolution can require up to 600TB+ of storage capacity and up to 2000MB per second (MB/s) sustained data rates for editing and post production to ensure data integrity, no dropped frames and a quick workflow. To keep pace with the storage needs for 4K digital cinema, Maxx Digital designed the Evo 6G 16-Bay system to handle data transfer at speeds of 1600MB/s. Coupled with the HGST 4TB Ultrastar 7K4000 drives, Red Studios Hollywood has access to the highest quality of data storage and performance.
"As a company dedicated to building products that meet the extreme requirements of production, we use HGST hard drives exclusively to deliver bullet-proof hardware, massive capacity and the lighting fast storage that Maxx Digital is known for," said Amborn. "Through this partnership, we're able to provide an industry leader like Red with the technology required to push creative boundaries."
"Digital cinema technology is innovating to keep up with 2K, 4K and beyond," said Brendan Collins, vice president, product marketing, HGST. "These high-resolution video formats require massive storage and faster data transfer rates to efficiently edit and distribute content throughout the workflow. The Ultrastar HDD family provides enormous capacity, solid performance and low power to meet the needs of today's top film and television producers and digital content creators."
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