Beijing Radio & Television Station Opts for Qsan XCubeNAS 8008T

Company
Beijing Radio & Television Station (BTV) is a large-scale modern cultural media organization integrating radio and television, new media formats, film and television art production, cultural market development, and talent training.

Its main business covers radio and television editing, production, broadcasting, transmission, new media development and application, film/television production and publishing, cultural facility operations, advertising operations, and many other fields. Moreover, The Beijing Winter Olympics Documentary Channel is the official release platform of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee and a new sports TV. It is an important platform to promote the better development of the ice and snow industry.

Challenge
In order to ensure the normal development of HD video production and 4K production business, the tower storage system provided this time needs to have the features of Thunderbolt NAS sharing function, data backup function, high bandwidth, stability, reliability, high security, easy expansion, easy maintenance and so on.

Solution:

• Business Backup
• Media Inline

After a long-term evaluation and in-depth research on product comparison, Beijing Television chose XCubeNAS 8008T as its storage solution. The product performs well in enterprise-level applications with its efficient features. It provides a range of configuration methods for various application requirements with simple, safe, scalable and powerful functions. QSAN replaces the expensive original storage system at a reasonable price.

The silent XN8008T Tower NAS storage adopts dual-port Thunderbolt 3.0 interface, and 8 hard drives can provide a stable video stream exceeding 1,280MB/s. It can meet the storage performance requirements of HD and 4K workstations for editing and packaging.

All Tower NAS storages can support file sharing, multi-point data, authority backup, and DR.

Each workstation in the production network deploys an XCubeNAS 8008T, a single disk is configured with a 12TB hard disk, and it provides 96TB of storage space.

In addition to common RAID modes, it also supports RAIDZ3 technology. After RAID, 3 HDDs can be redundant without a hot spare disk, which is 5x safer than RAID-6.

The SSD hard drive slot can also take into account the performance improvement of enterprises without sacrificing the original hard drive slot. It integrates the performance of the SSD and provides SSD read/write cache as well as automated storage tiering functions.

X8008T can meet the needs of HD and 4K online editing with relatively low cost.

Benefits:

• The 8+1 hybrid storage architecture supports storage expansion and Thunderbolt NAS sharing.
• Support 1GbE, 10GbE, Thunderbolt 3 interface. Provide high and stable performance, maximum read bandwidth 3,920MB/s, and write bandwidth 3,831MB/s.
• Complete backup solution – XMirror is highly available with the professional backup software.

Recommended Product: XCubeNAS 8000
Recommended Models: XN8008T

Recommended Features:

• The 8+1 hybrid storage architecture
• Unified storage: The integrated storage system can simultaneously support block and file storage applications, and supports iSCSI, CIFS, NFS, FTP, WebDAV and AFP
• Data security protection: Military-grade storage pool encryption, AES-256 storage pool encryption technology, WORM to get away from ransomware attacks, Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) and local/remote snapshot backups
• Complete backup solution: XMirror, supports multi-point data, authority backup and DR between NAS
• Enterprise storage technology: Automatic tiering, online file compression, and de-dupe.
• Support high-speed 10GbE network solutions.
• Epoch-making solution: Thunderbolt 3 (40GbE)