Medea VideoRaids -
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Find out what hundreds of digital videographers already know - Medea VideoRAIDs are the easiest, most cost effective storage for video. We've tested VideoRAIDs with all our cards and we got the same results every time. Zero dropped frames and perfect playback!! Now available in both internal and external versions, VideoRAIDs match and exceed the performance of 10,000 RPM UltraWide SCSI drives at a fraction of the cost and without any complicated SCSI set up. But, what else would you expect from the same guys who invented AV optimization for SCSI drives and optimized SCSI RAIDs. That's right they invented it! So although Medea may seem like a new company to you, the founders and engineers are some of the most respected high speed storage experts in the world!! VideoRAIDs are the real deal, utilizing the absolute latest disk drive technologies to give unprecedented performance.

Medea FireFly FireFly is an innovative FireWire solution designed for today’s storage intensive applications including digital audio and video editing, DVD authoring and desktop publishing. FireFly consists of a docking station and two removable FireWire disk drive modules. These modules also function as stand-alone FireWire drives, enabling you to create content while ‘on the fly’. . Modular design features removable disk modules and "base station" for content creation on the ‘fly’ FireWire interface with capacities up to 500 GB Setup as RAID 0 (striped), RAID 1 (mirrored) or as independent drives that can be sync’d together Front FireWire port for easy connection of DV camcorders - 2-port hub for daisy-chaining Stylish industrial design and ‘Fan-Free’ operation FireFly240 $699.95 FireFly400 $999.95 FireFly500 $1,299.95	Medea VideoRAID RT VideoRaid RT disk arrays provide the professional digital content creator with an unparalled price/performance storage solution. VideoRaid RT disk arrays offer up to 450 GB of storage per module and sustain a data transfer rate of 65 MB/second. VideoRaid RT provides more than enough performance to support a single-stream of ITU-R 601 uncompressed video or dual-stream, real-time effects systems at broadcast resolutions to 500 KB/frame. VIdeoRaid RT 4-Bay 160 GB VRAID4160RT $1,299.00 VIdeoRaid RT 4-Bay 240 GB VRAID4240RT $1,599.00 VideoRaid RT 4-Bay 320 GB VRAID4320RT $1,799.00 VideoRaid RT 4-Bay 480 GB VRAID4480RT $2,299.00 VideoRaid RT 4-Bay 720 GB VRAID4720RT $2,999.00	Medea VideoRack LP VideoRack LP disk arrays are the ideal storage solution for content creators who work with high end non-linear video editing systems. A single VideoRack LP will sustain 65 MB/second—more than enough performance to support single-stream uncompressed or dual-stream, real-time NLE systems. Low profile 1U enclosure requires only 1.75 inches of rack space Storage capacities up to 300 GB per rack Two units striped together sustain 130 MB/sec! Scalable to 9 terabytes Appears as a single SCSI drive - no third party disk striping software required LP Video RACK 160GB VRACK4160LP $1,399.00 LP Video RACK 240GB VRACK4240LP $1,799.00 LP Video RACK 320GB VRACK4320LP $1,999.00 LP Video RACK 480GB VRACK4480LP $2,499.00 LP Video RACK 720GB VRACK4720LP $3,199.00
Medea VideoRaid RTR VideoRaid RTR Ultra160 SCSI desktop disk arrays offer outstanding performance and redundant operation for all digital content creation applications. VideoRaid RTR provides data protection in the event of a disk drive failure yet costs less than unprotected JBOD products. Real-time RAID protects your valuable content Ultra160 interface with capacities up to 480 GB Single unit sustains up to 130 MB/second, two units striped support 1080i HD capture and playback Multi-Stream Technology (MST) supports real-time playback of up to 3 streams of uncompressed video Hot-swappable disk drives modules and removable RAID controller and power supply RTR Redundant 160GB Vraid VRAID5160RTR $2,999.00 RTR Redundant 240GB Vraid VRAID5240RTR $3,299.00 RTR Redundant 320GB Vraid VRAID5320RTR $3,499.00 RTR Redundant 480GB Vraid VRAID5480RTR $3,999.00 RTR Redundant 720GB Vraid VRAID5720RTR $4,699.00 VideoRack RTR Rack Mountable also available	Medea VideoRaid RTS The industry's lowest cost redundant disk array. High performance AND Data protection at an amazing low price Industry's lowest cost redundant storage solution as low as $7/GB! Real-time RAID protects your valuable content Ultra160 interface with capacities up to 640 GB Single unit sustains up to 100 MB/second Multi-Stream Technology (MST) supports real-time playback of 2 streams of uncompressed video Appears to your workstation as a giant SCSI drive RTS Failsafe 160GB VRAID5160RTS $2,299.00 RTS Failsafe 240GB VRAID5240RTS $2,799.00 RTS Failsafe 320GB VRAID5320RTS $2,999.00 RTS Failsafe 480GB VRAID5480RTS $3,499.00 RTS Failsafe 720GB VRAID5720RTS $4,199.00	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

VideoRAIDs are the perfect video storage solution for DVD authoring! Current DVD recording technology uses single sided / single layer disks with a 4.7GB capacity. At standard DVD video quality level that works out to about 2 hours of video with audio. If you use more compression you get even more time, but your video quality will drop a bit. While we are on the subject of storage capacity, you may not realize this, but making a 2hr DVD is going to require a very large amount of disk space. Here is a little math exercise that will explain just how much storage you will be needing. If you are starting with DV footage, you need 13GB per hour of video. This means a 2 hour DVD is 2 x 13 = 26GB of footage. Add in the extra unused footage and it's more like 3 x 13 = 39GB. Figure that you'll be adding some extra graphics and audio tracks. Let's say another 2GB for these. Now you need room for the MPEG2 footage for the DVD, that's 4.7GB more. If you plan on creating the DVD in a folder first (we recommend this) that's another 4.7GB. Add it all up and it comes to over 50GB of high speed video storage to make a 2 hour DVD!! If you plan getting into this new technology and adding DVD production to your video editing projects, we recommend you take a look at our Medea VideoRAID 2/160GB on sale for $899.95!!

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