Specifically designed for high-end finishing work and file-per-frame workflows across finishing and VFX workflows, EFS NVMe shared storage is built for creatives who demand the highest level of performance with a more sophisticated layer of control over projects, permissions and users who can access and modify the content.
Whether you’re working on UHD video projects, complex visual effects or real-time editing tasks, EFS NVMe shared storage delivers smooth multi-layer playback and lightning-fast access to your original media assets. Seamlessly edit, render and process high-resolution 4K or 8K media files with blistering speed, ensuring your creative workflow remains uninterrupted and projects are completed on time. The ultra-fast EFS NVMe shared storage platform easily integrates into existing EFS storage clusters, enabling production and post-production teams large and small to expand their storage capacity and accelerate their workflows without disruption.
Key Features
Blazing-Fast Performance: Harness the power of NVMe SSDs for ultra-fast media read and write access to multi-layered, multi-user media production projects.
Collaborate Faster: Eliminate bottlenecks across the most demanding media and entertainment workflows with high-speed, high-bitrate and high-throughput shared storage, making lag a distant memory.
Centralized Storage: Work on the most demanding high-quality video and VFX projects simultaneously and without video playback issues caused by network congestion or oversubscription, enabling streamlined connections with leading editorial, grading and finishing suites.
Power Efficiency: Work faster while minimizing energy consumption, reducing operational costs and environmental impact.
Reliability: EFS NVMe shared storage is built on the EditShare File System (EFS), trusted throughout the media and entertainment industry for its security and reliability.
Scalability: Future-proof your shared storage investment and easily scale storage capacity based on your needs, all while maintaining a single global namespace across all tiers of storage.
Technical Specifications
HPE DL380 Gen 11 Hardware (2RU)
Rack mountable HPE 2U server with 24 NVMe disks
Intel 4th Gen Xeon Processor (Sapphire Rapids)
128GB DDR-5 RAM
Operating System (OS) Boot Drives: 2 x M.2 NVMe SSDs, hot-swappable, rear-accessible, hardware RAID-1 mirror protection (1+1)
Storage disks: 24 enterprise-grade read-intensive NVMe drives in 2, 4, 8, or 16 TB capacities. Hot-swappable, front-accessible. One DWPD (Drive Write Per Day) endurance drives. **
Dual HW RAID Controllers, RAID-50
Hot-swappable Power Supplies, Fans, NVMe Media Drives
4 x 1 Gb network ports included + HPE iLO OOB management port
10GBASE-T, 10 GbE SFP+, single & dual 10/25G SFP28, and single & dual 100/50/40G QSFP28 NIC options available
Accelerate your next creative production project with EFS NVMe shared storage. Contact us today for a full demo.
