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Sonnet talks Echo Express SE, other tools I RVINE, CA — Sonnet (www.sonnettech.com), here, was at the IBC show with the Echo Express SE, the newest member of the company's Echo family of Thunderbolt expansion chassis for PCIe cards, which allows the use of a variety of high-perfor- mance PCIe adapter cards with any computer equipped with a Thunderbolt port. The Echo Express SE is targeted at users needing a simple way to connect an adapter card to their computers, and it supports the majority of Thunderbolt- compatible PCIe cards. The SE ($399.95) is lighter and more compact than its sibling products, yet its aluminum case provides great protection for the card. The new chassis supports a single half-length (up to 6.5 inches long), full-height, single-width PCIe 2.0 x8 card and ships with an external 60W power supply. Like the other Echo Express expansion chassis, the SE has dual Thunderbolt ports to support daisy chaining of devices and features a temperature-controlled fan to help cards cool. The Echo Express SE enables Mac computers equipped with a Thunderbolt port to use Thunderbolt-compatible professional video capture, audio interface, SAS and SATA HBA, 8Gb Fibre Channel, 10Gb Ethernet and RAID controller cards. Other news from Sonnet includes the Qio CF4 professional CompactFlash (CF) media reader, offering a high-speed alternative to conventional card readers. The CF4 is a four-slot CompactFlash (CF) memory card reader with support for concurrent file ingest from all four slots and an integrated two- port 6Gb/s eSATA interface for connecting external storage sys- tems. Also, Sonnet released Temp SSD and Tempo SSD Pro 6Gb/s SATA PCI Express (PCIe) 2.5-inch solid-state drive (SSD) cards, new members of the Sonnet Tempo fam- ily of SATA host controllers. SoleraTec intros Phoenix Firebird archive appliances S AN DIEGO — SoleraTec (www.SoleraTec.com) is offering the Phoenix Firebird family of media asset management archiving appliances for companies looking to store video, audio and still images. These pro-grade network storage archive systems are engineered for video pros. Phoenix Firebird 310 is plug-and-play desktop cube appliance offering a 4TB RAID-5 with one integrated LTO-5 drive for a multi-tiered storage solution. It's built on an Intel Core i5 processor and can be used as a con- tent management storage device. The Phoenix Firebird 810 is a 3U rack- mount solution with 8TB RAID-5 and one integrated LTO-5 drive (optional second LTO-5 drive available). It's built on an Intel Xeon proces- sor and acts as a content management storage device. Both products offer built-in Phoenix VCM software for scalability to handle hundreds of Tera- bytes of video assets. According to the company, the infrastructure of the Phoenix Firebird was designed around a digital media need for accelerated archive and retrieval workflows. The Phoenix VCM software creates low-res proxies and allows users to preview and search entire catalogs of video assets. The Phoenix Firebird works in Mac and PC environments and offers cross-application support for Avid, Final Cut Pro, Premiere and other editing systems as well. Built on the Sans Digital brand of storage hardware, these scalable appli- ances can be aggregated within a network to provide a growth path or pay-as-you-grow scenario. The Phoenix Firebird line is currently shipping and available through SoleraTec resellers and integrators. Pricing on the Phoenix Firebird 310 starts at $9,995. Promise at IBC with Thunderbolt solutions M ILPITAS, CA — Promise Technology (www.promise.com) was at IBC with it Pegasus line of hardware RAID storage solutions, including Pegasus R4 and R6, Thunderbolt-enabled storage devices along with the recently introduced Pega- sus J2, an ultraportable Thunderbolt storage offering, and the J4, a four-bay Thunderbolt-enabled external storage device supporting 2.5-inch small form factor HDDs and SSDs. Offering 6G mSATA flash, the J2 can deliver over 758MB/s throughput supporting volume encryption in the professional post markets. The high-speed I/O technology can deliver two channels of 10Gb/s (1.25GB/s) per port of performance. With I/O rates of over 500MB/s the J4 offers a leap in the performance of portable data storage for professionals working in post production. Also included in the demonstrations at IBC was SANLink, a Fibre Channel SAN adapter and the enter- prise class VTrak family of storage subsystems, featuring the Promise VTrak J930s, an ultra-dense 6Gbps SAS 4U/60-bay expansion chassis that enables data-hungry apps to scale in a dense amount of rack space with- out having to sacrifice server real estate. The VTrak J930s helps post pros to exploit critical tasks such as archiving, nearline storage asset management, proxy editing, working with 10-bit uncompressed digital assets and working in 4K environments. y apps to scale in a dense amount of ack space with- www.postmagazine.com Post • October 2012 19