More power with NVMe™-server for video editing and post-production
You would like to process parallel video streams with real-time comfort by using the right hardware equipment? We build the right server for you.
With Western Digital® into the first league of video servers
Case Study: Western Digital® SSDs Accelerate Servers for Post-Production
From internal measurements, our engineers already agreed that the All-Flash NVMe™ server with Ultrastar® DC SN640 SSDs from Western Digital® could be the benchmark for performance in this configuration. But how would its performance - compared to conventional technology - affect post-production? A test should provide answers.
- Disk performance with NVMe™ SSDs from Western Digital®.
- Fast multi-core CPU effectively handles multiple tasks
- 100 Gigabit per second supply several workstations simultaneously
Test setup with specialists from the industry
A tested server with Western Digital® Ultrastar® series NVMe™ disks.
Especially in a profession like video post-production, which produces vast amounts of raw data, an NVMe™ bolide quickly awakens desires - especially among media designers, cutters and editors. Therefore, sales manager Bernd Widmaier confidently turned to Tobias Feterowski, head of service and support at dve advanced systems GmbH.
The Starline partners from Aschheim in Upper Bavaria were to independently test our hand-forged top model as proven experts in this field.
Mr. Feterowski was not slow to respond, after all, their film, video and broadcast clientele requires extremely fast workflow solutions to handle the massive amounts of data in a timely manner for VFX, grading and video storage.
NVMe™-server for post-production
A previously delivered all-flash server served as a benchmark, which also still corresponded to the state of the art, but was less opulently equipped. With its 36 SATA SSDs, it's more at home in the backup area than as a work machine.
In addition, its interfaces were slower, with two 10 GbE upgrades. So be it. In the end, the technicians needed a comparison model.
Excursus: Data rates
Media workstations require an extremely large amount of bandwidth for editing HD, 4K or even 8K video data in the original color depth (4:2:2, 4:4:4), because they ultimately edit the raw versions - so-called RAW files. The data is therefore stored without data reduction and compression of any codecs, so that no image errors that could result from this are inherited in later processing steps.
A 4K camera that delivers 24 full frames per minute, for example, requires more than 12 gigabytes of memory per minute of film. Such a video therefore requires at least 1.6 Gbit/s net data rate in order to be processed in real time. Another aspect is the number of workstations to be supplied: With each additional workstation, the data rate that the server has to process is multiplied.
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Benefit from the storage veterans
Starline assists from the planning stage through to the implementation of the system.
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dve advanced systems GmbH specializes in technical solutions for film, video and broadcast postproduction. The company's portfolio includes in particular workflow solutions for VFX, grading and storage infrastructures.
