 The Videoguys' Insider Vol 2 Issue 2
This month's interview is with Don McDonell, VP of worldwide channel sales for Medea Corporation.
Videoguy: Medea was the pioneer in utilizing IDE (or EIDE, or ATA, or UDMA, or whatever you want to call them) disk drives in a RAID for video editing. Don and I go way back, in fact I've still got my invoice for VideoRaid #1, shipped back in September of 1997, hanging on the wall in my office. The cost of storage was a major portion of a Non Linear Editing system back then, and thanks to Medea it became significantly more affordable.
Don: Thanks for the compliment, Gary. I also framed your 1997 email congratulating us on a job well done, and promising to move "tonnage," which you have done.
The key to our technology was, and remains today, striping inexpensive disk drives together to obtain the data rates required to support video over the entire capacity of the device. Prior to Medéa, these rates could only be obtained with very expensive SCSI disk drives. Medéa set a new standard in three areas: high performance, low cost and ease of use. ...click here to read the complete interview with Medea
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