Source: iodyne.com
When your URSA Cine Immersive is pushing out 11.6 TB of OCF (original camera files) per hour shooting BRAW 5:1 at 90 fps, offload speed is the difference between staying on schedule and shutting the camera down. Every minute really does count.
With data volumes this big, capacity and protection matter just as much. You want the whole day’s OCF on a single, secure, encrypted device, not scattered across loose drives.
Pair the Blackmagic Media Dock (with SMB3 Multichannel) with an iodyne Pro Data 96 TB or 192 TB, and you get:
- RAID-6 containers for on-set drive-failure redundancy protection with encryption
- Multi-10G ingest from the Media Dock into Pro Data
- Sustained multi-GB/s write performance, so full 8 TB loads ingest at a consistent speed all day
- Enough capacity to keep multiple days of OCF online
This setup is the fastest way to offload URSA Cine Immersive Media Modules over 10G to a RAID-6 protected, encrypted container on Pro Data.
Offload Performance
Measured from 8 TB Media Module in the Media Dock to a Pro Data container (always encrypted) over:
- 2 × 10G (Mac mini built-in 10G + Sonnet Solo 10G) with SMB3 Multichannel
- Thunderbolt multipath from Mac Mini to Pro Data.
| Media Module Size |
RAID-6 TruePut Offload Time |
RAID-0 TruePut Offload Time |
| 8 TB |
~1 hr 21 min |
~1 hr 6 min |
| 16 TB |
~2 hr 42 min |
~2 hr 12 min |
- RAID-6: Drive-failure redundancy protection.
- RAID-0: Slightly faster without drive-failure protection. You’ll need to handle redundancy/backup separately.
What That Means On Set
An 8 TB Media Module from the URSA Cine Immersive holds roughly:
- ~40 minutes of OCF at BRAW 5:1, 90 fps
- ~66 minutes of OCF at BRAW 8:1, 90 fps
- ~98 minutes of OCF at BRAW 12:1, 90 fps
With the setup above:
- A full 8 TB module → RAID-6 on Pro Data in about 1 hr 21 min
- A full 8 TB module → RAID-0 in about 1 hr 6 min
Pro Data supports encryption, RAID-6, and multi-host access, so your backup strategy can grow with the job.
Workflow Ingredients
- Blackmagic Media Dock
- URSA Cine Immersive 8/16 TB Media Modules (number depends on your shooting ratio and day length)
- Mac mini with built-in 10G LAN
- 2 × Cat6 Ethernet cables (Mac mini ↔ Media Dock for 2×10G)
- 1 × iodyne Pro Data 96 TB or 192 TB (includes 2 × 1 m Thunderbolt cables)
- Sonnet Solo 10G (Thunderbolt → 10G adapter)
This gives you a simple, fast ingest path from URSA Cine Immersive to a RAID-6 protected, encrypted Pro Data, and leaves you free to design backups and media rotation the way that fits your production.
For a Step-by-Step Setup Guide on this process, checkout iodynes help resources here.
Contact Lemac Sales for pricing and availability.