Grass Valley PVS Series System Guide v.4.0 Dec 10 200 - Manual (Page 27)

Fibre Channel RAID storage
July 27, 2001 Profile XP System Guide 27
Fibre Channel RAID storage
Profile XP storage is comprised of the PFC500 Fibre Channel RAID Chassis and the
PFC500E Expansion Chassis. Both are 3.5 RU ten drive Fibre Channel disk arrays
with hot swap and redundant drives, power supplies and fans. The PFC500 houses the
controller for the system.
The PFC500 Fibre Channel RAID Chassis contains five or ten 18 or 36 GB drives.
Additional storage is available by adding up to two PFC500E Expansion Chassis.
Each PFC500E Expansion chassis can hold five or ten 18 (PFC518) or 36 GB
(PFC536) drives. The PFC500’s RAID controller will control up to two PFC500E
expansion chassis.
The PFC 500 is available in a two controller configuration for redundancy. If the
primary RAID Controller fails, the system will automatically switch over to the
redundant controller within a few seconds.
The PFC 500 is configured to use RAID-3 storage for high availability to media.
Fibre Channel and/or Ethernet IP Networks
The Profile XP family offers true IP networking over Fibre Channel or Ethernet.
• Faster than real time transfers (up to 40x) with no generation loss
• Reliable transfers using secure file transfer protocols
• IP networking enables files to be moved between devices or between facilities over
standard public networks.
• Profile network streaming enables “play while transferring”
Fibre Channel Streaming enables the file to be used shortly after the destination
Profile starts receiving it — just like you can do with a traditional video router. This
eliminates the traditional drawback of networking in which the file must finish
transferring before a user has access to edit it or play it out.