Accusys and Seagate Announce ExaSAN RAID Support for Seagate HDDs

With the growing need for large capacity and high performance storage solution within the post production industry, Accusys ExaSAN and Seagate, the two leaders in storage field had tested and jointly announced that the Seagate ST6000NM0034 SAS 6TB HDDs is compatible with the whole ExaSAN product family and makes it more powerful than ever. Especially for the ExaSAN A16S3-PS RAID storage, while configured with the Seagate enterprise SAS drives, it can provide a reading performance up to 2685MB/s and a writing speed at an average of 1840MB/s when processing a 10bit 16 GB 4K file, which makes the storage solution a powerful support for post production experts.

The ExaSAN storage system takes full advantage of the PCI Express protocol throughout the storage path. While specially configured with 8 to 16 Seagate ST6000NM0034 6TB SAS HDDs, the work station is able to deliver more than twice the performance of Thunderbolt interface, offering both impressive speed and capacity. However, it doesn’t stop here, the RAID storages support not only PCIe but also Thunderbolt 2, makes it not just powerful, but also versatile.

The Seagate ST6000NM0034 hard drive as long as its enterprise HDD product lines are selected by IT Brand plus as Market leader in two consecutive years. The 3.5” 6TB SAS hard drives deliver high capacity without sacrificing performance for reliable access to bulk storage of unstructured data. It provides fast response and RAID rebuild time, and is specifically designed and built for data center environments. Being a perfect match for the ExaSAN A16S3-PS storage, the storage solution can provide video editing professionals with a worry-free and memorable working experience

About Seagate

Founded in 1979, Seagate is the leading provider of hard drives and storage solutions. From small capacity storage devices for daily basis to the backbone of enterprise data centers and cloud-based computing, Seagate’s innovative products make it easier for customers to access, share and protect their digital data. In 2013,Seagate has became the first hard drive manufacturer to surpass the 2 billion drives milestone and it sure won’t stop here.

About Accusys

Since 1995, Accusys Storage Ltd. has been designing and manufacturing cutting-edge and innovative storage products in order to help customers around the globe to store, protect, and manage their most important media assets. In 2009, while eyes on the need of digital content creation professionals within the post-production industry, the Accusys ExaSAN product family and its wide range of robust workflow controllers, PCIe RAID storages and switches were brought to the market to support post production experts with their creative work.