AVID NEXIS STORAGE & SPECIFICATIONS
Mix and match Avid NEXIS F-series engines to create a single pool of tiered storage, enabling you to start small and grow your system as your business grows. Scale capacity and performance by adding more Media Packs to an engine—or additional engines to a system—enabling up to 10+ PB of raw storage and more than 30 GB/s of total bandwidth.
STORAGE ENGINES—NAS FOR VIDEO EDITING AND AUDIO PRODUCTION
Avid NEXIS | F5
- For large, demanding broadcast and post-production environments
- Drives: Supports up to 8 Media Packs + Hot Spares (80 HDDs) in a 200 TB capacity
- Hot Spare Support: 12-drive design to support hot spares for added protection
- Scalability: 800 TB–1.12 PB per F5
- Bandwidth: 3.84GBps per F5 (Up to ‘X’ with 12 user limit)
- Network interface: 2 x 50GbE QSFP+ (greater redundancy or aggregated bandwidth)
- Requires SDA+
Avid NEXIS | F5 NL
- High-density nearline storage for all media production environments
- Drives: Supports 4 or 8 Media Packs (40 or 80 HDDs) in a 240 TB capacity
- Scalability: 960 TB–1.28 PB per F5 NL • Bandwidth: Up to 1 GB/s per F5 NL
- Network interface: 10GbE SFP28
- Requires SDA+ to operate (including a single, half-populated unit)
Avid NEXIS | F2
- For small to mid-size video and audio production teams
- Drives: Supports 1 Media Pack (10 HDDs) in a 200 TB capacity
- Scalability: 200 TB per F2
- Bandwidth: Up to 480 MB/s per F2 (700 MB/s with 12 user limit)
- Network interface: 10/25GbE SFP28
- Requires SDA+ to operate when scaling beyond 4 Media Packs
Avid NEXIS | F2X
- Cost-effective storage expansion for Avid NEXIS | F2
- Drives: Supports 1 Media Pack + hot spares (10 HDDs) in a 200 TB capacity
- Hot Spare Support: 12-drive design to support hot spares for added protection
- Scalability: Adds an additional 200 TB to F2
- Bandwidth: Adds an additional 480 MB/s to F2 (700 MB/s with 12 user limit)
- Network interface: SAS
Avid NEXIS | F2 SSD
- Ultra-fast, high-bandwidth storage for Editorial finishing, VFX, Animation, DI, Color grading
- Drives: Supports up to two SSD Media Packs (20 SSDs)
- Scalability: 153.6–307 TB
- Network interface: Dual 100GbE per storage controller
Avid NEXIS | PRO+
- For smaller teams (cannot be mixed with “F-series” engines)
- Drives: Supports 1 Media Pack (10 HDDs) in a 80 TB capacity
- Scalability: 80–320 TB by connecting up to four PRO+ engines together
- Bandwidth: Up to 480 MB/s per PRO+ (700 MB/s with 12 user limit)
- Network interface: 10/25GbE (SFP28)
OPTIONS TO SCALE YOUR STORAGE
Scale up to 4 Media Packs with the embedded System Director — no additional hardware required or Scale beyond 4 Media Packs (up to 64 total) with the System Director Appliance (SDA+)
System Director Appliance (SDA+)
- Increase Avid NEXIS scalability and redundancy (required for F5 and F5 NL)
- Choice of two file system licenses
- Standard — Supports up to 24 Media Packs, up to 3.8 PB of total storage, up to 165 active clients and up to 28 million files
- Advanced — Supports up to 64 Media Packs, up to 10+ PB of total storage, up to 330 active clients and up to 175+ million files
- Supported for all F-Series models; not supported with PRO+
Redundant Controller
- Enable system redundancy and high availability
- Performance: Enables high availability and mirror protection for each storage engine when combined with the SDA+ • Protection: Supports automatic failover of critical services
- Reliability: Prevents disruptive and costly wait times for hardware replacement
- Replacement: Supports configure-less controller replacement (swapping defective hardware requires no manual configuration)
- Supported for all F-Series models; not supported with PRO+
Media Packs
- Add storage capacity to “F-series” engines
- For F2 SSD: 153.6 TB and 307.2 TB Media Pack (10 SSD drives)
- For F2, F2X, and F5: 200 TB Media Pack (10 HDD drives)
- For F5 NL: 240 TB Media Pack (10 HDD drives)