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News a Safe Harbor blog G-Technology Unleashes G-Speed eS PRO XL 0 Posted by Safe Harbor Staff April 20, 2009 If you enjoy this post, please share it! G-Technology by Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced its new G-SPEED eS PRO XL, a rack-mount, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) expansion solution, with mini-SAS connectivity, providing high-performance, lowcostRAID for professional content creation applications. The new G-Technology® G-SPEED™ eS PRO XLcomes in a 2U 12-drive, or 3U 16-drive rack-mount enclosure, with hot swappable SATA 3Gb/s harddrives for high-performance, high-capacity, expandable direct-attached storage for small film studios andproduction houses. Supporting the real-world performance needs of multi-stream uncompressed HD and 2K workflows, theG-SPEED eS PRO XL in a 3U RAID 5 delivers sustained read/write speeds of more than 650 megabytesper second (MB/sec), making it ideal for real-time video editing and digital intermediate (DI) filmapplications. A simple-to-use, web-based control panel allows users to easily manage, configure andmonitor the system. The G-SPEED eS PRO XL ships with a two-port mini-SAS RAID controller card and a locking, two-metermini-SAS cable, allowing users to easily and affordably scale from an entry-level 12 TB 2U solution up toan incredible 192 TB. The PCIe x8 RAID controller supports JBOD and RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5 and 6. Up toeight G-SPEED eS PRO XL units can be connected to one RAID controller card, allowing an enormousamount of data-intensive video, graphic material and audio files to be centrally stored and managed. "Compared to Fibre Channel solutions, our new G-SPEED eS PRO XL with mini SAS instantly changesthe economics of deploying a rack-mount solution in a small studio or high end production house," saidRoger Mabon, vice president of G-Technology by Hitachi GST. "The value of the G-SPEED eS PRO XLenables a new class of customers to benefit from the performance, reliability and scalability withoutbreaking their IT budgets." Mac OS X and Windows compatible, the G-Technology G-SPEED eS PRO XL will ship in May 2009. Itcomes with a three-year standard warranty with pricing starting at $6,999 MSRP for 12 TB in a 2U rackmountenclosure. 0 responses to "G-Technology Unleashes G-Speed eS PRO XL" Leave a comment You can use select BBCode tags to format your thoughts including: [b], [i], [s], [u], [url], [quote] and [code].

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