Avid Unveils NEXIS Storage Performance Innovation for Ultra High-Resolution Video Workflows
By Jennifer P
In a recent blog post, Avid details the new Avid NEXIS | F2 SSD storage engine enables media production teams to scale and collaborate on editorial finishing, VFX, animation, color grading and DI workflows. With the new Avid NEXIS | F2 Solid State Drive (SSD) flash storage engine, Avid® showcased the following generation of its shared solutions.
The NEXIS | F2 SSD, which is currently available for purchase, greatly speeds up media workflows, enabling post-production teams to produce and deliver final video of greater quality more quickly than ever. The finishing of 4K, 8K, and HDR footage, as well as color grading, VFX, and animation, are some of the most difficult media workflows that Avid NEXIS | F2 SSD storage can handle.
Ed Harper, Director of Product Management, Creative Product, Clouds and Storage at Avid
Building on the proven and trusted Avid NEXIS storage platform used by thousands of media organizations, the Avid NEXIS | F2 SSD perfectly fits the performance requirements of today’s most demanding high-resolution workflows.
The new Avid NEXIS | F2 Solid State Drive (SSD) flash storage engine was introduced by Avid to complement the Avid NEXIS® range of media production storage solutions. The NEXIS | F2 SSD, which is currently available for purchase, greatly speeds up media workflows, enabling post-production teams to produce and deliver final video of greater quality more quickly than ever.
Outstanding performance and media protection
The finishing of 4K, 8K, and HDR footage, as well as color grading, VFX, and animation, are some of the most difficult media workflows that Avid NEXIS | F2 SSD storage can handle. With capacity to scale from 38.4TB to 307.2TB per engine, users benefit from additional space and improved performance while also minimizing total cost of ownership. The Avid NEXIS media packs on the NEXIS | F2 SSD can now deliver more than six gigabytes per second. A redundant storage controller and hot spare SSDs are used to deliver exceptional media protection and high availability.
Heightened focus on delivering higher-quality content faster
Post-production teams may work with greater collaborative performance and finish projects faster thanks to the increased speed offered by NEXIS | F2 SSD. Comprehensive media creation tool testing and support, including Avid Media Composer, Avid Pro Tools, and top third-party creative apps, give creative teams more options for producing more premium content more quickly.
Scale cost-effectively to match business needs
A flexible storage option that enables businesses to scale as their capacity and performance requirements grow is the NEXIS | F2 SSD. The highest-performance network connectivity is provided via dual redundant 100 Gbps Ethernet connections for each storage controller. Businesses may ensure they only pay for the configurations they need by having the option to right-size them. NEXIS | F2 SSD gives post-production teams the adaptability they need to access greater performance, durability, and continuity that keeps them competitive and up to date by allowing flexible modifications to capacity, processes, and configuration.
“Production teams continue to see growing demand for high-resolution original content amid increasing pressure to deliver projects faster and sharpen their competitive edge. Building on the proven and trusted Avid NEXIS storage platform used by thousands of media organizations, the Avid NEXIS | F2 SSD perfectly fits the performance requirements of today’s most demanding high-resolution workflows.”
Ed Harper, Director of Product Management, Creative Product, Clouds and Storage at Avid
All current Avid NEXIS systems are compatible with Avid NEXIS | F2 SSD. Avid NEXIS | F2 SSD administrators can instantly switch a workspace between performance tiers while retaining read and write access when utilized with Avid NEXIS online or nearline storage. Teams now have even more options for the right tiered storage solution to meet any of their production processes thanks to the addition of Avid NEXIS | F2 SSD to the Avid NEXIS family.
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