Products: Huge Systems

Although they're speedy, even 2Gbps Fibre Channel SANs can't handle multiple streams of high-res material, further bogging down when faced with multiple users. That's why it's good news for anyone moving into HD postproduction that systems with speedier networking are now delivering. One of the very first 4Gbps FC products, the Media Vault 4212, comes from Huge Systems. Actually it's the Ciprico Huge Systems Media Vault 4212, since the Plymouth, Minn.-based company recently acquired Huge Systems, which has built a reputation for delivering fast, easy-to-deploy storage arrays.

This RAID-6 storage array, which premiered at NAB, uses cost-efficient SATA drives to keep costs down. By employing RAID-6, users save time while securely protecting even very large data sets. RAID-6 does away with the time-consuming task of making another copy of a failed disk or the delay in waiting for a hot spare to be completely rebuilt. If you want to run in RAID-0 mode, the base unit features a total capacity of 4.8TB; in RAID-6, usable capacity ranges from 1.28TB to 3.2TB. www.hugesystems.com