Setup guide

Chapter 1 Avid DS Overview and Site Preparation
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Package Contents
Your Avid DS Nitris system contains hardware, software, and documentation.
Hardware
After carefully unpacking the hardware, verify all of the items on the packing slip before
setting up your workstation. Make sure that you write down the serial number of all the
devices.
A typical Avid DS system includes the hardware listed in the following table.
System Hardware
Device Device, cables, and accessories
HP Workstation xw9300 Base unit, keyboard, mouse, two optical cables, power cord, and
rackmount kit (optional)
Flat-panel monitors (21-inch monitors
from previous Avid DS systems are also
supported)
Two 18-inch flat-panel monitors, two monitor cables and two VGA
to DVI adapters, and two power cables
Avid VideoRAID or
Avid MediaDock
™
LVD or
Avid MediaDock Ultra320
local storage system
Avid VideoRAID, MediaDock LVD or MediaDock Ultra320
enclosure with drives and power cables
(Option) Avid MEDIArray II
™
local
storage
Fibre Channel controller board, an Avid MEDIArray II enclosure
with a minimum of four Fibre Channel drives for standard definition
(SD) or eight drives for high definition (HD) storage, and a power
cord
(Option) Avid Unity
™
MediaNetwork
Fibre Channel storage system
Fibre Channel controller board. Enclosures depend on the
Avid Unity MediaNetwork system ordered
(Option) Avid Unity ISIS shared storage
system.
This is an Ethernet based shared storage system.
Avid Nitris
™
Digital Nonlinear
Accelerator (DNA)
Avid Nitris DNA, digital interlink cable, three audio harness cables,
and a power cord
Avid installs two PCI boards in the HP workstation that support the
Avid Nitris DNA
(Option) Wacom
®
tablet Tablet, pen and stand, USB cable, and 4D mouse