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Media-aware high performance shared storage for digital content creation and broadcast applications
Sledgehammer NAS is an enterprise-level, high–performance file server that delivers maximum throughput at the lowest cost–per–megabyte–per second. Sledgehammer NAS increases flexibility and efficiency of the storage and network infrastructure of any facility:
- Satisfies the media I/O demands of the hungriest rendering clusters
- Supports editing and effects workgroups for any type of network client
- Provides simplified system administration with MAXmin™
- Includes the MAXmedia™ Offline application for media management, conversion and editing
The combination of MAXmedia Offline and MAXmin with Sledgehammer’s enterprise class hardware provides you with a true “digital media appliance”—a perfect storage and infrastructure solution for any broadcast and post-production facility.
High–Performance
- Access gigabyte to terabyte–sized files in seconds. Using Gigabit and10 Gigabit Ethernet technology, Sledgehammer NAS provides an aggregate network throughput exceeding 500–700+ MB/s
- Allocate guaranteed network bandwidth for dedicated clients
Connectivity
- Access media files on the Sledgehammer from any type of network client. Using industry standard protocols (NFS, CIFS, Apple Talk®, FTP, and others), Sledgehammer provides concurrent access from heterogeneous network clients (UNIX, Windows, Mac OS, Linux)
Reliability
- Sledgehammer systems minimize downtime and include: hardware RAID 5 data protection; redundant power supplies; hot swap removable controllers, disks, power supplies, cooling fans, and cache batteries.
High–Availability
- MAXmirror option provides a pair of fully redundant servers configured to provide uninterrupted access to data in mission–critical environments, such as live on–air broadcasts
- SOS option (Second–Online–Server) provides automatic NAS head failover for uninterrupted access to data
System Administration with MAXmin
- Configure, operate, monitor, and updated your Sledgehammer via MAXmin—Sledgehammer’s browser–based system administration tool. Easily configure and update user accounts, authentication parameters, network mapping, storage, and high–availability configurations
- Graphical view of system and network performance allow you to quickly locate and identify bottlenecks and component failures with your system
Easy Upgrade Path to Sledgehammer HD!O
Sledgehammer NAS systems can easily be upgraded to Sledgehammer HD!O (SD, HD, and 2K film resolutions) for the real-time capture of uncompressed SD or HD video at either 8–bit,10–bit, 12–bit color depth. Using the MAXmedia Online browser-based interface, all operations are timeline based and are EDL–compatible. Once saved, timelines simply appear as any other clip on the system.
With MAXmedia Online, an external device such as a VTR can be controlled for real–time input or output of media. A timeline of clip segments can be created and controlled via external RS–422 interface. In output mode, multiple clips up to 4K 10-bit log can be played out in real-time. When acting as a digital disk recorder (DDR), Sledgehammer can be controlled by any SONY Protocol compliant device, and can also supply play/record for real-time color grading systems.
MAXmedia for Digital Media Management
MAXmedia is Maximum Throughput’s Java browser–based digital media management application. It is designed to simplify the data handling tasks of colorists, editors, visual-effects artists, and data operators. MAXmedia includes Offline and Online modes.
MAXmedia Online, included with Sledgehammer HD!O, provides the ability to capture directly to or output from an EDL–compatible timeline, which can be shared among users—a workflow enhancement pioneered by Maximum Throughput.
MAXmedia Offline, available on all Sledgehammer systems, provides timeline and quick editing functionality, format conversions, clip browsing, naming, and moving. Estimated processing times are adjusted dynamically based on overall system loads.
- Browse, search, copy, move, rename large image sequence clips
- Timeline assembly and real–time playback of mixed resolution (SD, HD, 2K, 4K) multi–format uncompressed sequences (DPX, TGA, SGI, CIN, TIFF, etc.) and compressed movie formats (MXF–based and MPEG)
- Convert clips and timelines to uncompressed image formats and compressed movie formats (MPEG and MXF–based)
- Enhanced segment editor with support for LUT editing and processing, including pan, scan, cropping, letterbox, pillarbox
- Organize media renaming and conversion jobs using the Task Manager
For more information on MAXmedia Offline click here.