Media 100 Qualifies RAID, Inc. Storage Solutions for the New Version 11 Systems

Optimizing the performance of the new family of SD and HD NLE products with industry leading IT storage solutions

Media 100 today announced the qualification of RAID Incorporated's Falcon Series storage solutions for their new version 11 product line. "We have a long history with the team at RAID and work hand-in-hand with them to ensure Media 100 systems gain the maximum performance and throughput from RAID's outstanding storage products," comments Rob Newman, product manager, Media 100. "The qualification of RAID's Falcon series provides our Media 100 customers a proven, high-quality IT storage product that they can cost effectively scale according their capacity needs."

With the Falcon II and III storage products, Media 100 users can now maximize up to 3.4TB capacity per system and 7,200 RPM to ensure fast access to data including multi-gigabyte graphic and digital image files. The Falcon II performance is based on new architecture which incorporates a 266 MHz ASIC, integrated dual PCI-X bus design and support for double data rate (DDR) memory which provides internal bandwidth up to 2GB/sec, making it ideal for high-throughput applications.

The Falcon III series of 4Gb Fibre to SATA-2 storage systems were designed for environments that demand the ultimate in performance such as cluster, database server, short window disk-to-disk backup, and video editing/compositing applications such as Media 100 and Boris FX.

"We consider the 3TB RAID Falcon and Media 100's editor as the ultimate solution, allowing us to maintain several major ongoing projects online at once. Editing in 22 languages for an international company like Alltech keeps our project schedule very tight," comments Chad Robinson, editor for corporate media, Alltech Inc. "The Media 100 / RAID Falcon combination gives us the affordable flexibility needed to serve our market of 85+ countries around the world."