EFS 300 delivers the performance and capacity required for today’s largest media-centric environments. Beginning with a 16 drive configuration providing generous bandwidth, the EFS 300 platform can easily scale from a single 64 TB master node, that includes FLOW media management and ARK archive workflow tools, to a fully expanded enterprise cluster of 1 PB and beyond.
For added peace of mind, the EFS 300 offers extra resilience with support for XOR and COPY protection schemes that can tolerate the loss of one or more storage node.
Key Features
- Start small, scale when you need to
- Add an additional 7 nodes in a single namespace
- FLOW media management included
- Choice of file protection mechanisms to suit content value and budget
- Easily expand to 1 PB+
- Mix and Match drives sizes in same workspace
- Supports all leading creative applications
Technical
- Two hot-swappable 480 GB SSDs for system configuration and metadata management
- Multiple network cards available
- Redundant power supplies and cooling
- 2U rack-mountable chassis
Product Features
Collaborative Media Workflow
Share collaborative projects and media with multiple users working on-premise and in the cloud.
Build the workflows you want on top of an open platform that integrates with industry-leading creative tools from:
- Adobe®
- Apple®
- Avid®
- Autodesk®
- BlackMagic Design®
and more.
Mix and match creative tools while enjoying project sharing and bin locking capabilities in a multi-collaboration environment.
Durable Architecture
Enjoy high availability and extreme reliability with no single point of failure. The EFS open storage solution gives managers and administrators peace of mind in 24/7 environments.
Stay in control with a management console that allows you to adapt the distributed file system to your needs. Whether it be a single server of a multi-node cluster, EFS works with you.
Seamlessly read and utilize parity or copy data from elsewhere in the cluster when a storage node is busy or unavailable. EFS increases performance and reliability with our SwiftRead technology.
Single Name Space
Scale as needed, while retaining a single namespace across tiered storage including nearline disk, SSD, and fast HDD options.
Leverage an open platform that provides unprecedented scalability, optimized performance, and data protection.
Additionally, the management console works as the “brain” of the EFS technology stack. You can easily control user permissions, projects, security and administrative privileges.
Creativity Beyond Boundaries
EFS Swift Link technology revolutionizes the creative process by enabling seamless and secure access to media stored on EFS nodes from anywhere in the world. Whether editing with proxies or downloading for offline work (automatically relinking to high-res files when available), Swift Link ensures minimal disruptions and optimal throughput with its advanced latency detection, boosting VPN performance up to 10 times and empowering creatives to collaborate more efficiently across the globe.
Open APIs
Leverage the openly published RESTFul APIs for simple but powerful integration.
Easily accomplish automation of administrative tasks including user permissions, quotas, and projects, saving countless hours of administration.
Native Drivers
Experience increased bandwidth, reliability and reduced latency across the network.
Optimized specifically for creative applications, EFS drivers are native for:
They allow direct connectivity to storage resulting in superior performance. EFS also supports standard protocols like SMB, NFS, and AFP.
Real-time Monitoring
EditShare Guardian offers real-time visibility into the ongoing operations of an EditShare system.
A set of dashboards and analytics tools provide custom search capabilities. The software offers the ability to create custom dashboards and reports based on these searches.
Guardian also records user activities such as media space mounts and unmounts, individual file opens, reads, writes, and deletes. The software provides full system accountability.
Writing and Playback of Files
Excel with a system that is optimized and tuned for the high performance, multi-stream video playback demands of post-production.
EFS maintains performance anywhere. From 100s of streams of concurrent low-bitrate offline editorial streams to demanding multi-stream uncompressed 4K single-file per-frame workflows and beyond.