Sonnet Provides Storage Systems To INSP

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Sep 2, 2011 12:56 PM, By Ned Soseman

Sonnet Technologies voiced that INSP, The Inspiration Network, a radio network dedicated to family-friendly and inspirational programming, is the ultimate customer to use Sonnet's Fusion DX800RAID high-performance, eight-drive RAID SATA storage network and Fusion D400QR5 desktop four-drive RAID storage appliance. Both systems supply arguable and adjustable locally trustworthy storage is to network's video modifying and prolongation teams.

The four-drive Fusion D400QR5 features inner RAID 5 encouragement to broach information insurance in the eventuality of a expostulate failure. The network offers a quad interface for adjustable connectivity, and delivers information transfers up to 220MB/s read and 210MB/s write when related around eSATA and with its drives configured as a RAID 5 set. INSP chose the D400QR5 for its rough-cut modifying suites to encouragement multistream video editing, before the video is sent to a Final Cut Profinishing station.

Like the D400QR5, the eight-drive DX800RAID offers RAID 5 encouragement but uses an enclosed high-performance RAID coordinator card for larger opening and protection. With its 8 drives formatted as a RAID 5 group, the DX800RAID yields splendid read and write record give speeds of up to 870MB/s and 850MB/s, respectively. At INSP, the DX800RAID systems are trustworthy to the network's Final Cut Pro amend finishing stations, where they supply absolute local storage for last modifying of video to be aired on INSP networks.

The INSP announce trickery is located in Charlotte, NC. With the enlargement of digital calm for their ever-increasing lineup of programs, the network was seeking to find competent hoop space to agree with multi-part terabytes of tender footage that was forthcoming in from on-location shoots and other projects. As a solution, INSP sought to equip its Final Cut Pro modifying stations with high-capacity and arguable storage capabilities. Both the Fusion DX800RAID and D400QR5 confederate an ultraquiet Vantec Stealth fan, that is 80 percent quieter than a typical box fan, creation the systems befitting to INSP's noise-sensitive prolongation environment.