SoftRAID 9 Adds RAID 6, Minus the RAID Card
SoftRAID 9 adds RAID 6 and RAID 6+ for directly attached storage, including third-party hardware, with one substantial macOS condition.
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Media Composer 2026.8 Changes Shared Projects
Avid opens supported third-party Shared Projects in Enterprise, closes old NEXIS emulation in 2026.8 and adds multicam transcript automation.
Why Tape Is Suddenly Cool Again: An Interview with Quantum CEO Hugues Meyrath
Tape is back. Apparently it just needed AI, an energy crisis and a few hundred petabytes to become fashionable again. Quantum CEO Hugues Meyrath explains why.
LaCie 8big Pro5: The Big Box
Fast, vast and decidedly audible: we tested the 192 TB LaCie 8big Pro5 with RAID 50, Thunderbolt 5 and real production workloads.
Nanite marches in: Twinmotion 2025.2 update
Nanite now works in Twinmotion. 2025.2 also brings a new post stack, animation upgrades, VCAM tweaks, and cloud storage.
Flame 2026: OCIO, Files and Timeline Magic
Discover the seven key innovations in Flame Family 2026—from OpenColorIO to AI-enhanced video quality.
IBC 2024 Frame.io with JJ Powell
The new version 4 of Fram.io has many workflow improvements. And JJ Powell explains how the Frame.io team uses Frame.io in their own workflow.
Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve – the Sequel
Unlike most cinema films
Unlike most cinema films, new software sequels are usually released with new ideas - and DaVinci Resolve 18.5 and 18.6 (DR for short) are no exception. In particular, there are quite impressive new
AI functions among them. But this time, one wonders whether one has bought the cinema ticket too early without waiting for the criticism of others. Or whether you installed the update too early without consulting the relevant forums.
Collaboration with Blackmagic Cloud
With the introduction of Blackmagic Cloud, Blackmagic Design offers a simple workflow for online collaboration
with DaVinci Resolve. Despite the ongoing beta phase, we dared to use Blackmagic Cloud productively a few weeks ago - with very positive results overall.
Dropbox Adds Frame-Accurate Media Review
Dropbox Creative Tools adds frame-accurate video comments, multi-track audio preview and cloud-based review for remote production teams.
Dropbox on Cloud Workflows for Large Media
Dropbox’s Andy Wilson discusses delta sync, 4 MB chunks, Smart Sync, previews, APIs and remote workflows for large video and VFX files.
Data everywhere. But where is that file?
After asking around in preparation for this focus, we stumbled on a few studios mentioning something called Caringo – an Austin-based provider of storage tools, hardware, software and other things. Since it came recommended, we asked what that “storage thing they do” is …
Subscription Based Workstations
Even though we tested the workstations in this issue under the motto "Cheap and Cheerful", it doesn't help if crunch time comes around the corner and the hardware isn't enough. And even if you buy the computer in a hurry - where can you get the software in a hurry? And what about availability?
Free SAN & DAS Storage Book
At least for everyone who has an Apple iTunes or iBooks account. Anyone still looking for an inexpensive and at the same time useful gift will find all the information here.
NAB 2011: Sonnet Installs Thunderbolt
Sonnet presents its first Thunderbolt storage and connectivity products at NAB.
IBC 2010: SpycerBox Flex from DVS
At IBC, DVS presented the youngest member of the SpycerBox family. The central media hub SpycerBox Flex is equipped with the latest SAS technology and is intended to double the previous capacity.
LaCie Stores with Style
Backup servers for small and medium-sized businesses need not resemble the battered refrigerator in a student residence kitchen.
New TeraStation from Buffalo Technology
A fully equipped entry-level NAS for SoHo and SMEs with up to five employees.
Dell Introduces New Rack Systems
Dell is expanding its data-centre infrastructure range with two new rack systems.
HP Starts 2009 with a Flurry of New Storage Solutions
HP recently introduced several new storage solutions, including the latest HP StorageWorks MSA 2300fc G2, low-bandwidth replication for the HP D2D2500 and D2D4000, enhancements to the VLS9000, and the SB1760c Tape Blade.
Bonsai and storage workshop
During the workshop we will record, transfer and edit 4 channels in parallel and play out the result. The developer of the bonsaiDRIVE, Mr Rosendahl, will be present and give a presentation on the topic.
12:00 Registration, start of the event
14:00 Lecture/Workshop Multicam Liveediting I with Hands On
15:00 Lecture Rosendahl with subsequent discussion
16:00 Lecture Storage
17:00 Lecture Backup
18:00 Lecture/Workshop Multicam Liveediting II with Hands On
Hans-Peter Dathe Takes Over Management of dexxon data media storage GmbH
Developing new business areas and sharpening the profile of the EMTEC brand are the main priorities.
IBC 2008: DataDirect Networks Introduces High-Performance Storage for HD Content
For the first time, more than 30 Apple Final Cut Pro workstations can access uncompressed HD content in real time.
Record Participation in “Get the Disk” Design Competition
Toshiba’s Storage Device Division has recorded a new participation record for its online game “Get the Disk.”
Toshiba Supplies the Notebook Market with Six New 2.5-Inch Hard Drives up to 400 GB
Toshiba's Storage Device Division (SDD) is expanding its portfolio with six new 2.5-inch hard drives offering capacities from 80 to 400 GB. Users can now find suitable mass storage for every notebook type and application.
Rimage Introduces DiscFlow™ for Mac OS X
An integrated, fully automated solution for producing CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs for Mac users in broadcasting, video production and graphic design.
Modern Archiving of Business-Critical Data Cannot Do Without Automation
DocuWare, Primera, and PoINT deliver an intelligent complete solution comprising a document-management system, burning software, and a duplication device.
Pinnacle Entertains the Whole Family During the Summer Holidays
A well-earned holiday with the whole family is just around the corner. Pinnacle Systems offers varied holiday entertainment with its products—anywhere and for everyone in the family.
Fusion F2 Impresses Even Hard Rockers
Iron Maiden is successfully using Sonnet Fusion F2 systems on its current tour.
Primera Launches Duplication System for Automated Mass Production of Optical Media
The new DUP-08/1000 can burn up to 1,000 CDs or DVDs in a single operation.
Sony Expands XDCAM EX Family with New PMW-EX3 Camcorder
The first XDCAM EX deck, the PMW-EX30, and the announced 32 GB SxS PRO memory card also provide greater production flexibility.
Sat.1 Norddeutschland Hamburg Chooses Sony HDXchange
Sony Professional Solutions plans and installs the file-based workflow
Sonnet Fusion F2 in New 1 TB Version
The portable Sonnet Fusion F2 RAID system is now available in a 1 TB version with improved performance
Affordable Solid-State Drives for Mainstream Users
California component manufacturer OCZ Technologies has introduced solid-state drives (SSDs) promising half the cost per gigabyte of previous high-speed offerings.
Seagate: New OEM Manager
Seagate Technology appoints Sven Dunker as OEM Manager for Central Europe.
Connect Two External eSATA Drives Directly to the Mac Pro Logic Board
Sonnet Technologies is now offering the eSATA Extender Cable. The adapter provides two eSATA ports on every Mac Pro, affordably and with minimal effort, by using the unused SATA connectors found on every Mac Pro motherboard. The adapter is now available in stores for a recommended retail price of just €20 including VAT.
EMTEC’s Gdium: A Pocket-Sized Netbook
The device does without a hard drive and relies on external storage.
Hard Drives: Using Higher Speeds to Compete with SSDs
Western Digital is reportedly working on drives running at 20,000 revolutions per minute.
Iomega Launches 1 TB Super eGo Desktop
Iomega launches the 1 TB eGo Desktop hard drive worldwide, combining backup software with the design of its portable eGo range.
Imation Apollo Portable Hard Drive Offers Up to 320 GB in an Elegant Design
A professional drive for exchanging large volumes of data, system backups and protecting user files.
New Flash Memory Promises Better Solid-State Drives
First 34-nanometer component offers 32 gigabits
Sony: Optical Disc Endurance Test
How Much Can a Storage Medium Endure? The Optical Discs for XDCAM HD Had to Undergo an Extreme Endurance Test.
Iomega Upscales
The new Iomega ScreenPlay HD multimedia drive brings high-resolution content from a PC to a high-definition television through upscaling.
Windows Live SkyDrive: 5 Gigabytes Free
Microsoft is providing storage space to all users of its online hard-drive service. File size is limited to 50 MB per file.
New Seagate Video Storage
Seagate and Motorola plan to introduce a new video-storage solution for users. Showcase stores high-definition films and television programmes.
New SmartCom Center – Version 2.1.3
Introduced as a prototype at CeBIT, Quintec’s all-in-one SmartCom Center (SCC) appliance is now available in the new RAID-capable version 2.1.3 with many new functions. The version with two mirrored hard drives—RAID level 1—makes the SCC, developed specifically for small and medium-sized businesses, safer and more convenient to use.
320 GB Seagate Momentus 7,200 Drive: Dell and Alienware Ship the First High-Performance Notebooks
Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX) announces that Dell XPS notebooks, and soon selected Alienware laptops, use the industry’s first 320 GB, 7,200-rpm hard drive, the Momentus 7200.3. These leading computer makers are thus the first to bring systems with 320 GB high-performance drives to market.
Sonnet Reduces Price of Portable Fusion F2 RAID System
A price reduction makes the mobile, highly secure RAID system increasingly attractive to the photography and audio industries and a smart alternative to external FireWire and USB hard drives.
Imation, Global Provider of Sun StorageTek 9840 Tape Media
Optimization of tape libraries in data centers through proven media technology and improved drive performance.
Seagate Secure Technology: NSA Qualifies Self-Encrypting Laptop Drives
Seagate full-disk-encryption drives meet a high standard for securing government data. Momentus 5400 FDE.2 is approved for use in National Security Systems.
Nero and Verbatim Announce Partnership for New External Hard-Drive Models
The new generation of Verbatim 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch external hard drives will ship with Nero BackItUp 2 Essentials software.
Sonnet Fusion RAID Expander Adds Seven PCI Express Slots
Sonnet Technologies introduced the Fusion RAID Expander at NAB 2008, allowing up to seven Fusion RAID desktop or rackmount storage systems to be connected to one computer.
Avid Introduces New RAID Solutions
Avid Technology has introduced the new generation of high-performance disk arrays: Avid VideoRAID ST and Avid VideoRAID SR.
Primera Software Brings Asynchronous Burning to Smaller Companies for the First Time
Primera Technology is launching a new version of its duplication software for fully automatic copying and printing of storage media. PTPublisher 1.2.3 can burn two optical discs containing completely different material at the same time.
Seagate CFO Charles Pope Plans Move to New Position
Seagate Technology announced that longtime management-team member and Chief Financial Officer Charles Pope will leave his post effective August 25, 2008 to focus on leading Seagate Services.
Iomega: Media Xporter for Games Consoles
The cross-platform external hard drive enables digital videos, images and music to be used without a PC.
Iomega Launches Media Xporter for Game Consoles
Iomega introduces the Media Xporter, a portable hard drive for gamers. The new storage product enables audio, video and music content to be played through Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 game consoles on, for example, high-definition television sets (HDTV).
Seagate: One Billion Hard Drives Shipped
The next billion is expected within the next five years.
Sun expands IPTV streaming platform
Sun Microsystems expands its IPTV platform to cover between 100 and 160,000 simultaneous video streams.
NAB 2008: Storage platform streams multiple 4K feeds
A single platform manages up to four 4K and two 2K streams from enterprise and nearline disks.
Primera: Blu-ray Is the Archival Medium of the Future
Primera Technology considers Blu-ray Disc the most suitable medium for archiving business-critical data, citing its high capacity.
Sun Expands IPTV Platform
Sun Microsystems expands its streaming-system portfolio with a new IPTV platform spanning 100 to 160,000 simultaneous video streams.
AIPTEK Presents PocketDV AHD 300 Camera with 1080p
AIPTEK introduces the pistol-grip PocketDV AHD 300 high-definition camcorder at a price of €159.
NAB 2008: DVS Presents SpycerBox Media Hub
DVS presents SpycerBox, a storage system that can serve as a NAS, file server, or DVS-SAN backup and scale through SpycerLink clustering.
NAB 2008: DVS Software Duo Optimizes DVS-SAN Management
The DVS-SAN management tool and Spycer provide visibility into the performance and content of the central storage system.
EMC to Acquire Iomega
EMC Corporation, the world's largest provider of information infrastructure solutions, and Iomega Corporation, a leading provider of data storage and security solutions for consumers and small businesses, today entered into an acquisition agreement.
DVS Enables an Expanded Workflow at MI Post
DVS today announces the implementation of an expanded Digital Intermediate workflow at MI Post (formerly Moving Images). MI Post is one of New York's leading postproduction companies and offers creative finishing services such as film scanning, colour correction, motion graphics, visual effects and editing for short- and long-form projects.
Primera Cuts Prices for Blu-ray Duplication Systems
Primera Technology reduces prices for Blu-ray-equipped duplication and printing systems by approximately 15% to 24%.
Iomega REV 120GB Backup Drives Now Available
Iomega International S.A. announces immediate availability and new pricing for its third-generation REV 120GB backup drives for small and medium-sized businesses and distributed workgroups.
Avid Systems Expand Across Eastern European TV
Broadcasters in Warsaw, Zagreb and Sofia deploy Avid-based systems for workflows ranging from news production to reality television.
Braun DigiFrame 1150 Digital Picture Frame
The new digital picture frame has an 11.3-inch TFT LCD display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels and supports the display of high-resolution images of up to 16 megapixels. In addition to digital pictures, the DigiFrame 1150 can also play video clips and MP3 music files.
G-Technology Storage Range Scales to 16 TB
New Media AV adds G-Technology storage systems as a companion range for Blackmagic Design I/O cards.
Alpine Introduces CDE-9880R and CDE-9882Ri
Alpine's CDE-9880R and CDE-9882Ri car-audio head units add USB playback and support for MP3, AAC and WMA.
HD-DVD debacle costs Toshiba one billion dollars
According to initial figures, the failed attempt to establish HD-DVD globally as the successor format to DVD is leaving the Japanese technology company with a loss of 989 million dollars.
Microboards presents the MX series and PF-Pro
Microboards is thus bringing new disc publishers and disc printers to market that promise extremely low printing costs.
New Medical Disc Systems (MDS) integrate RAID 5
Rimage, manufacturer of systems for the fully automated production of individual optical storage media, is presenting the 5100Nx and 5300Nx variants of the Rimage Medical Disc series at ECR.
CyberLink Introduces PowerProducer 5 Authoring Software
Digital-lifestyle software developer CyberLink has launched CyberLink PowerProducer 5.
DViCO Launches Its Latest Multimedia Player
The remote-controlled TViX HD-M 6500A multimedia player can deliver almost any video or audio format to a home LCD television or monitor.
High Transfer Speed Enables Real-Time Recording
Verbatim has introduced a new 16 GB Class 6 SDHC flash card with a guaranteed minimum write speed of 6 MB/s and transfer rates of up to 20 MB/s, enabling real-time recording directly to the card.
Blu-ray gains a new rival in the format war
No sooner has the format war between Blu-ray and HD-DVD been decided than the next contender, HD-VMD, appears on the scene. London-based New Medium Enterprises (NME), the company behind the Versatile Multilayer Disc, intends to hold its own despite Blu-ray's triumphant advance.
Xbox 360: Microsoft and Sony negotiate over a Blu-ray drive
Following the end of HD-DVD, Sony is in a strong negotiating position. Apple is reportedly also interested in Blu-ray drives.
Blu-ray prices will fall very soon
Less expensive manufacturing methods are soon expected to make film titles on Blu-ray media considerably cheaper in the medium term.
Primera RoboWeb Wins SME Innovation Award
Primera Technology’s RoboWeb software for browser-based control of CD and DVD duplication systems won a 2008 SME Innovation Award at CeBIT.
2008 SME Innovation Award goes to Primera software
The new RoboWeb software for Primera Technology's CD/DVD copying and printing systems has received Initiative Mittelstand's 2008 Innovation Award at CeBIT.
Blu-ray: Chinese companies challenge Taiwanese DVD manufacturers
Leading Chinese DVD manufacturers have responded to Toshiba's withdrawal from the HD-DVD business by converting their production facilities to the Blu-ray format.
equinux releases The Tube 2.5 with the free TubeToGo web service
equinux today introduced The Tube 2.5 with the TubeToGo web service. The Tube users can now publish their TV recordings in a web gallery, watch them over the Internet and schedule recordings while on the move. The TubeToGo web interface can be used to manage the entire recording archive in The Tube and publish it in the TubeToGo web gallery.
Iomega Introduces REV 120 GB Drives
Iomega has introduced its new REV 120 GB removable backup drive at CeBIT.
Toshiba announces HD video cameras for the DACH region with the Gigashot model range
After Toshiba Europe GmbH announced the European launch of two hard-drive-based high-definition video camera ranges in the Gigashot product family at CES 2008, market entry in Germany, Austria and Switzerland is now imminent as well.
Silver turns blue: Primera welcomes the victory of Blu-ray Disc
The manufacturer of duplication and printing systems has been a member of the Blu-ray consortium since 2005 and backed the right optical medium early on.
Microboards Presents New CD and DVD Duplication and Printing Systems
At CeBIT, Microboards is showing new duplication systems for CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray media, including professional and desktop products.
Apple Introduces Xsan 2
Apple has introduced Xsan 2, a major upgrade to its storage-area-network file system for Mac OS X, adding MultiSAN and third-party RAID support.
Memup Introduces Mediadisk MX
Memup has introduced the Mediadisk MX multimedia hard drive with capacities up to 1 TB and 1080i HDMI or DVI output.
Startup Develops Low-Cost 100 GB Flash Memory
Intel and other investors have provided US$14 million in development capital.
Credit-Card-Sized Hard Drive Offers up to 120 GB of Storage
TrekStor introduced the DataStation microdisk, a 1.8-inch external hard drive measuring 9 × 5.7 × 0.64 cm, with 20, 80 and 120 GB capacities.
Blu-ray Media with Printable Surface and Quadruple Writing Speed
Verbatim is launching new blank Blu-ray discs: the BD-R 4x Printable has 25 GB of storage capacity and can be written completely in only 23 minutes. The new Verbatim Blu-ray Disc is suitable not only for high-definition film recordings, but also for comprehensive office-data backups or long-term archiving of photos and music files. The Verbatim 25 GB 4x BD-R Printable will be available in stores from the end of January at a recommended retail price of €12.99.
MW: Sonnet Presents an Ultra-Compact Storage Solution
At Macworld in San Francisco, Sonnet Technologies, a provider of local storage solutions for Mac, Windows and Linux, presents a compact storage solution with a capacity of 640 GB. The DP editorial team was on site and interviewed Sonnet’s CEO.
EMTEC: Faulty USB sticks to be replaced promptly
EMTEC USB sticks from the C150 series were delivered to retailers with a production defect between November and late December/early January. The fault has now been corrected