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: 2 hot spares for added protection
- Scalability: 800 TB–1.12 PB per F5
- Bandwidth: 3.84GB/s per F5 (Up to 7.6 GB/s with 12 user limit)
- Network interface: 2 x 50GbE QSFP+ (link aggregation possible for greater throughput)
- Requires SDA+ to operate (including a single, half-populated unit)
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
- Hot Spare Support: 2 hot spares for added protection
- 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 (link aggregation possible for greater throughput)
- 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 (10 HDDs) in a 200 TB capacity
- Hot Spare Support: 2 hot spares for added protection (spares can be used by Media Packs in host and extension enclosure)
- Scalability: Adds an additional 200 TB to F2
- Bandwidth: Adds an additional 480 MB/s to F2 (700 MB/s with 12 user limit)
- Expansion Connection: 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 • Bandwidth: >6 GB/s per Media Pack
- Network interface: Dual 100GbE per storage controller (link aggregation possible for greater throughput)
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) (link aggregation possible for greater throughput)
OPTIONS TO SCALE YOUR STORAGE
Scale up to 4 Media Packs with the embedded System Director for increased capacity and bandwidth — 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 (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
- 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)
- Zero-downtime: hot-swappable while the system remains fully operational
- Supported for all F-Series models; not supported with PRO+
Media Packs
- Add storage capacity and bandwidth 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)