Increased Capacity by 30% for EZQuest Video RAIDs

EZQuest, Inc. announced higher capacity versions of its Cinema Pro rack-mountable RAID solution and Thunder RAID for creative content professionals.

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The Cinema Pro now offers 32 TB of storage and the Thunder RAID offers 8TB of storage while both continue to deliver speed, function and value for video professionals. Both units meet the performance, portability and redundancy standards creative content professionals need for an all-digital workflow.

The Cinema Pro comes in a 16-bay, hot swappable, 3U rack-mountable form factor, with up to 32TB of storage, utilizing an
external 20GB/s PCIe bus, it delivers lighting fast data transfer rates of over 900MB/s in RAID Level 0 and over 870MB/s in RAID 5. Speed is not a problem and it will support multi-stream SD, HD and 2K even 4k film environments on Mac or PC workstations. It comes standard with 2GB SDRAM cache memory on a built-in 800Mhz Intel IOP341 I/O processor. The Cinema Pro ships with built in RAID 0, 1, 1E, 3, 5, 6 and JBOD that is configured with EZQuest’s GUI RAID utility and offers both a e-mail (SMTP) and remote (SNMP) support notification system. With an optional redundant power supply and RAID cache battery backup module, precious data is made secure at all times and is fully expandable via the equipped 20Gb/s PCIexpress extender port that enables daisy-chaining capabilities.

The Thunder RAID sports a 4-bay, hot-swappable / hot-pluggable desktop form factor, with up to 8TB of storage and can be configured to RAID levels 0,1,3,5,10, JBOD or as a single drive with its built-in RAID controller that allows full online RAID migration. With robust capacity and fast performance the Thunder RAID offers sufficient speed to edit hours of 10-bit uncompressed HD video or play back up to six 8-bit video streams, all in a compact form factor.

“By increasing the capacity of the Cinema Pro and Thunder RAID by over 30%, we are continuing our mission of allowing creative professionals the ability to focus on the job, not the storage,” said Ebrahim Zmehrir, president of EZQuest. “Both products continue to offer their respective speeds and performance, but they now offer a little bit more to love.”

The Cinema Pro is shipping now with capacities from 16 to 32 TB and an MSRP starting at $8,889.00. The Thunder RAID is shipping now with capacities from 4 to 8 TB and an MSRP starting at $1,399.00.