EMediaLive.com: Medéa Announces Compatibility of RAID Arrays with Kona 2 Capture Card

Medéa Corporation, a manufacturer of ATA-based RAID storage solutions for content creation and delivery applications, has announced the compatibility of its VideoRaid FCR2 and FCR2X Fibre Channel RAID storage arrays with the Kona 2 dual-rate HD/SD capture card from AJA Video Systems, Inc. Testing of the VideoRaid FCR2 and FCR2X arrays was conducted by AJA Video Systems.

Kona 2 is a capture card that supports uncompressed 8 and 10-bit SDI, HD-SDI, and dual-link 4:4:4 HD at both 10 and 12 bits. Kona 2 also features 8-channel AES audio, HD/SD component analog video output and Broadcast Quality HD/SD hardware up/down conversion.

The Medéa VideoRaid FCR2 and FCR2X are fibre-channel arrays optimized for a variety of high-bandwidth applications, including HD video editing with the FCR2X. The VideoRaid FCR2 is equipped with a single channel 2-Gbit Fibre Channel interface and provides a sustained data transfer rate of 180MB/sec, while the VideoRaid FCR2X comes with dual 2-Gbit Fibre Channel interfaces that can deliver a sustained data transfer rate of 320MB/sec-sufficient to meet the demands of all formats of HD.