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Huge Media Vault - Dual Max User’s Guide
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Thank You
Congratulations and thank you for purchasing the Huge Media Vault product from Huge Systems Inc. a
leader in huge performance, huge quality, and huge cost savings storage product for your video editing and
storage requirements.
Your Huge Media Vault storage system utilizes the latest SCSI Ultra160 technology. SCSI Ultra160
affords system operations at blazing speeds, enabling you to maximize valuable system time and the
highest of video quality for HDTV resolutions.
Each Huge Media Vault - DualMax contains two independent RAID controllers and ten disk drives for
HDTV applications. Huge Media Vault uses the latest in high performance disk drives and the latest
transfer mode, huge throughput per disk drive pumping data into our RTR (Real Time RAID) engine for
fault tolerant and maximum transfer rates, coupled with the RTC (Real Time Cache) at an internal data rate
of 400MBytes/sec, this translates to a huge performance at the SCSI interface. Upward of 320MBytes/sec
burst and 200MBytes/sec of sustained data rate with the dual SCSI channel Huge Media Vault.
Data protection are available with the built-in RAID 3@2k and RAID 3 modes. A simple and easy to use
Mode Select switch selects either RAID 0 or RAID 3@2k or RAID 3 operation.
If you have any comments, suggestions or questions, please call, FAX or e-mail us. We value input from
the most important people, you our customer.
Again, we thank you.
Model Numbering
The Huge Media Vault model numbers are in the following pattern:
HMV - (size) - (channels)
Where HMV is Huge Media Vault
(size) is the capacity of the Media Vault in Gigabytes in RAID 0 mode.
(channels) is either DualMax for 2 SCSI channels or Max for a single SCSI channel.
HMV-2500-DM would represent 2500 Gigabytes (2.5 Terabytes) of Dual SCSI Channel.