Product specifications

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System Overview

Supported Storage Boards

There are three types of external storage options available for your

Avid system:

• Standalone Fibre Channel (F/C)

• SCSI UL3D/160 LVD board

• Avid Unity MediaNet

As drive size and drive speed improve, different F/C devices, MediaDrives,

and LVD shuttles will be available for use. Contact your Avid Sales and

Product information line at 800-949-2843 for more product information.

Standalone Fibre Channel

The standalone F/C system uses an Emulex controller board (see

“Fibre Channel Controller Board” on page 2-18) and an F/C disk

enclosure that contains up to 10 drives.

For striping information, see the latest version of the striping tables in the

Documentation section of the Avid Customer Service Knowledge Center.

The following 7.2K rpm and 10K rpm F/C storage devices are

supported:

• Shipping F/C devices:

- MEDIArray™ (XL series) 18 GB 10K rpm

- MEDIArray (XL series) 73 GB 10K rpm

• Nonshipping F/C devices:

- MSDE 9 GB 7.2K rpm

- MEDIArray 18 GB 10K rpm (early versions)

- MEDIArray 50 GB 7.2K rpm