Tuned for 4K/8K Editing, Compositing, and VR Workflow, It's the Company's Most Powerful Shared Storage System

Archion announced the EditStor Omni Hybrid, a new 4RU NAS server designed for VR, VFX, animation and motion graphics workflow.

With a combined emphasis on throughput (up to 8,000 MB/second) for uncompressed 4K and 8K codec streaming and sheer speed for rendering and graphics performance (the company claims it handles more than 600,000 IOPS by steering high-IOP requests to dedicated high-speed SSDs on the fly), the system is specifically engineered to handle both editing and rendering tasks so facilites don't have to spend time migrating media between storage tiers.

That hybrid approach makes it the most powerful shared storage system in the company's catalog, Archion CTO Jim Tucci told StudioDaily. "Sophisticated software and hardware is aware and optimizes IOPS performance," Tucci said, adding that target customers include "VR production houses, post-production and graphic houses — anyone producing [both] graphic content and editorial work."

The Omni Hybrid will be available in four different base models, with usable RAID-5 protected storage ranging from 38 TB (with 2 TB SATA 3.0 drives) to 124 TB (with 6 TB drives). A 512 GB cache is tuned for digital video, while another 64 GB of system RAM is dedicated to processing. Storage capacity can be expanded to "nearly 1.5 PB" via hot-pluggable expansion chassis, the company said, with virtual share sizes configurable on the fly via a web-based GUI.

The system comes standard with four 10 GigE optical ports and four 1000BaseT ports and can be upgraded to a maximum of 16 ports via three additional four-port cards for sharing with up to 16 clients without Ethernet switching. 40GigE connectivity is also available, the company said.

The Omni Hybrid supports file-sharing via AFP, NFS and SMB, as well as Windows Active Directory and LDAP for user authentication. It has been certified for Adobe After Effects, Autodesk Maya, Flame and Lustre, The Foundry Nuke, Blackmagic Resolve, and more software tools, Archion said.

The Omni Hybrid is currently in use by paying customers at a number of post-production facilities, Archion said.