Overview
Whether you are working on SD or 2K Film, Autodesk® Stone® Direct Fibre Channel storage solution from Autodesk is the underlying subsystem that provides the high-performance, real-time playback of non-compressed digital media. Designed to deliver fast access to stored media without compromising data integrity, Stone Direct combines high reliability and exceptional performance in a user-friendly solution. Stone Direct brings significant performance and operational advantages to independent creative systems as well as systems configured in a switchable storage environment.
The new Stone Direct XR series provides a flexible, ultra-high performing, cost-effective storage solution. This includes the latest high-density enclosures with support for up to four 4Gb/s Fibre Channel host connections, and dual RAID controllers. In addition, extensible configurations let you choose the amount of storage to fit your production needs. |
Stone Direct offers the increased performance, reliability, and data integrity through level 5 hardware RAID. RAID 5 distributes block-level parity information across each of the multiple drives in the array, enabling complete data reconstruction in the event of a disk failure. With Stone Direct implementation of level 5 hardware RAID, facilities experience continued real-time performance with their visual effects or finishing/editing Autodesk® system investments—with the added assurance of efficiency, optimization, reliability, and data integrity.