XENON Systems selects Adaptec for post-production film application

XENON Systems of Melbourne, Australia provides high-performance server and storage solutions to customers including film and post-production studios, TV stations, government organisations and high-tech companies. Their storage offerings range from general-purpose business networked attached NAS systems to storage area networks (SANs) to direct attached storage (DAS) with both internal and external connectivity.

Challenge
XENON Systems is seeking a controller to integrate into a solution that combines SAN performance with NAS accessibility for clients in the film and post-production industry.

Solution
Adaptec Series 5 RAID controller.

Results
In testing the Adaptec Series 5, XENON found:

• Performance equal to or better than Fibre Channel-to-Fibre Channel and Fibre Channel-to- SAN external controllers with dedicated I/O processors
• Performance that was equally good on small files and large files
• The ability to handle Film 2K data streams at a sustained 320GB/s and Film 4K data streams at a sustained 1.2GB/s