ATTO Technology FastStream SC 5300 Quick start guide

ATTO Technology, Inc. ●155 CrossPoint Parkway ●Amherst, NY
716.691.1999 ●fax: [phone] ●www.attotech.com
Performance Benchmark
ATTO’s FastStream SC 5300 Data Protection
Storage Solution for Avid Storage Solutions
Configuration
ATTO FastStream SC 5300 Appliance
RAID Storage Controller
2 DVRAID Virtual Drives
12 Hitachi SCSI 72GB, 15k RPM drives
Dual 4 Gb Fibre Channel Host Interface
Firmware Version 2.1
Host Configuration
Host Machine – HP XW8200
Host Processor – 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon
RAM – 2 GB
Host Adapter - ATTO Celerity 42XS Fibre Channel
ATTO Express Power Center Software
Application Details
IOMeter
ATTO Benchmark Tool
ATTO Express Power Center Software
128 kB Interleave
Operating on MS Windows XP Pro
Application Metrics
Supports 11 Streams of Uncompressed
Standard Definition video via Avid Media
Composer Adrenaline
Supports 2 Streams of Uncompressed 10-bit
High Definition Video plus Alpha Channel title
Supports 11 streams of Avid DNx HD Video
Framework
In today’s non-linear editing environments media
assets are becoming more and more critical. The
ATTO FastStream Storage Solution provides
customers with existing non-RAID protected solutions
a new level of protection while ensuring that the project
workflow remains unaffected. This solution also allows
customers to leverage their existing investment in
SCSI based storage while adding data protection. This
ensures that Video Editors will have constant, reliable
access to their media even in the event of a drive
failure. Global Hot Spares are available and provide
customers a higher level of data integrity.
FastStream SC appliances solve the challenge of non-
protected data while maintaining or exceeding current
performance. By using ATTO’s exclusive Digital Video
RAID (DVRAID™) your digital video and audio assets
are kept safe, keeping your edits intact in case of a
drive failure. In addition, ATTO’s Audio Track
Streaming (ATS™) technology allows the FastStream
SC to support the editing of multiple tracks of audio in
stressful editing environments while managing latency.
The FastStream SC Appliance line features a mature
RAID stack used in ATTO products for over five years.
Improving on industry-certified technology to create the
FastStream SC, performance enhancing features such
as caching, deferred writes, write coalescing and host
transfer scatter combine to give the FastStream
blazing fast performance.
The tested hardware / software storage solution
consisted of a FastStream SC 5300 Storage Appliance
connected to an Avid MediaDock 12 bay Ultra320
SCSI array in split bus mode. The MediaDock
contained 12 Hitachi disk drives with 6 connected to
each U320 bus of the FastStream SC 5300. The
FastStream was configured as two virtual DVRAID
devices and mapped to individual 4 Gb Fibre Channel
ports. The FastStream SC 5300 was then connected
to the Celerity 42XS PCI-X Host Adapter. The FC
ports were then striped with ATTO’s Express Power
Center software. This software allows for large block
transfers in a Windows striped environment. This
increases overall performance while maintaining the
data protection of the FastStream SC 5300.
Additionally, performance was measured with IOMeter
using a RAW disk system with no file system installed.
ATTO FASTSTREAM SC
Storage Appliance
Avid MediaDock Ultra320
XW8200 Workstation
with ATTO Celerity 42XS
Host Adapter Installed

ATTO Technology, Inc. ●155 CrossPoint Parkway ●Amherst, NY
716.691.1999 ●fax: [phone] ●www.attotech.com
Summary of Results – Filesystem
The FastStream was setup in a dual DVRAID
configuration, mapped to two independent Fibre
Channel 4 Gb ports using ATTO Express Power
Center. This resulted in breakthrough performance for
a parity protected solution. The following benchmarks
were run in the provided configuration through an
NTFS file system. ATTO Disk Benchmark was used to
perform read and write operations using the most
popular video transfer sizes. The transfer sizes ranged
from 512 kB up to 8 MB. The maximum performance
that was achieved in this configuration was 483
MB/sec reads and 221 MB/sec writes. This
performance provides users the data delivery
standards they expect from an Avid storage solution
while providing a new level of data protection.
Summary of Results – IOmeter
In this configuration, raw performance numbers were
measured. These numbers do not include a file
system and show raw performance to the disk drives
without the aid of any additional software. The
maximum performance that was achieved in this
configuration was 433 MB/sec reads and 247 MB/sec
writes.
Conclusion
For transfer sizes common for today’s video
applications (512 kB – 8 MB), the FastStream SC 5300
provides the throughput necessary for today’s
demanding editor. This performance coupled with the
advanced features of the FastStream such as data
protection, online capacity expansion and ease of
configuration allows customers to leverage their
existing storage infrastructure. This performance
difference becomes even more dramatic at greater
queue depths which are now supported in the latest
Operating Systems.
The FastStream SC achieves faster overall
performance by implementing ATTO’s advanced RAID
algorithms and conversion technology. This allows the
customer to benefit from advanced data protection,
thus decreasing lost project time and better utilizing
valuable resources.
About the FastStream SC 5300
The ATTO FastStream SC 5300 Storage Appliance is
a mid-range storage appliance optimized for
bandwidth-intensive applications and is capable of
delivering the high data-transfer rates required to
support uncompressed HD, multi-stream real-time
uncompressed SD video and multi-track audio editing.
The ATTO FastStream SC also offers a unique
combination of performance and flexibility by enabling
your direct attached SCSI storage to become part of a
storage area network while remaining storage
agnostic. Connect individual disks, JBOD’s or RAID
systems and instantly increase performance and
reliability. In addition, you can easily add new storage
as your needs grow with the capacity expansion
feature. The ATTO FastStream SC Appliance is
available in an industry standard 19” 1U rack-mount or
desktop unit, provides high-performance features such
as hardware-based RAID, DVRAID™, multi-host
connectivity, ATS™ technology, field serviceable
design and simple management and configuration with
ATTO’s ExpressNAV™ GUI. ExpressNAV also
features a built-in performance tool for the remote
monitoring of application performance from the GUI.
1 MB
Transfers
Queue
Depth
100% Sequential Writes
2 MB
Transfers
4 MB
Transfers
8 MB
Transfers
1
2
4
8
175.53
MB/sec
185.02
MB/sec
179.13
MB/sec
170.35
MB/sec
221.27
MB/sec
217.34
MB/sec
206.68
MB/sec
194.90
MB/sec
241.01
MB/sec
230.56
MB/sec
230.85
MB/sec
221.43
MB/sec
247.72
MB/sec
215.75
MB/sec
213.45
MB/sec
221.60
MB/sec
325.87
MB/sec
100% Sequential Reads
2 MB
Transfers
1 MB
Transfers
Queue
Depth
4 MB
Transfers
8 MB
Transfers
1
2
4
8
280.22
MB/sec
346.37
MB/sec
350.47
MB/sec
371.95
MB/sec
324.06
MB/sec
425.32
MB/sec
422.53
MB/sec
433.37
MB/sec
427.19
MB/sec
429.25
MB/sec
430.35
MB/sec
349.81
MB/sec
426.39
MB/sec
431.03
MB/sec
433.11
MB/sec