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EnhanceRAID T5 Helps PureDV Completes Music Production

The Scenario

In a recent editing project co-produced with Quadrama Films for Paul Stanley's (KISS) solo Live DVD "Live to Win", Lester Cohn of PureDV determined early on that 12-15 cameras even in DV would be very difficult to edit with the multi-clip feature in Final Cut Pro.

To solve this problem, a friend and local Avid DS trainer in Chicago named Jack London made Lester aware of Enhance Technology while previously working on a television show in HD. After consulting with sales professional at Enhance Technology, the compact and versatile EnhanceRAID T5 U320 SCSI desktop RAID storage array instantly get the production going without interruption.

Enhance Experience

EnhanceRAID T5 help PureDV achieved the goal and solve their video storage needs.

“T5 worked flawlessly even packed to file size limit of our 1.5 terabyte T5 it never failed us and we found that pushing elephants through a straw was made easier by using the T5”- Lester Cohn.

Lester said “I found that working with Enhance was an amazing experience. Any problems we experienced setting up were answered VERY quickly and our sales professional Mike Thurston went overboard in how much help he offered. At some point we had some technical difficulties Mike would provide us with telephone numbers and people to connect with to help us.”

System and Application Setup:

Host Systems: Apple G5 dual 2.7 with 8GB of RAM
Display Unit: Dual 23" Apple Cinema Displays
Video/Audio Capture Devices: Kona LH card & M-Audio BX-8a Monitor Speakers
Editing Software: Apple Final Cut Pro Studio HD
Video Format: DV/NTSC
Audio Format: 12-15 streams
Data Storage: Used over 1.5 terabytes

About Puredv

PuredvCapitalizing on a passion for the music industry and strong production sensibilities, Lester Cohn founded PureDV in 1998. Coming from JAMtv where he produced over 200 live webcasts for both JAMtv and RollingStone.com. After his initial successes, Lester was brought on board to do projects for Island Def Jam, Squint, Immortal, Warner Brothers, Virgin, Sony, DreamWorks as well as continuing his relationship with Maverick. More recently, Lester co-produced and edited the soon to be released Paul Stanley (KISS) Live to Win DVD along with Quadrama films and Louis Antonelli. PureDV continues to be a creative force working solely in the music business.

About Lester Cohn

Lester Cohn, founder and President PureDV. Studied Art and is alumni of California Institute of the Arts, also further studied Art History at Chicago's Art Institute

EnhanceRAID T5 U320 SCSI

T5About EnhanceRAID™ T5

The EnhanceRAIDT T5 is a compact desktop RAID storage system that supports up to (5) high capacity SATA (I & II) disks and with built-in Enhance RAID Engine. The EnhanceRAID T5 Series features a next generation 64-bit Scale Core processor capable of sustaining data rates over 240MB/Sec, and offers a cutting edge "web-based" user interface which provides complete storage control over a standard web browser. Elegant design and aluminum polish makes T5 Series the top choice of storage by advanced gamers and savvy video editors in addition to speed and reliability.

EnhanceRAID™ T5 U320 SCSI Features & Benefits:

  • Hardware RAID Intel 80331 500Mhz 64-bit RISC Processor
  • Host Bandwidth U320 SCSI and backward compatible
  • Disk Supported Serial ATA I&II at 3 Gb/s
  • Built in remote access for event log and e-mail notification
  • RAID levels supported 0, 1, 0+1, 3, 5, 6 & JBOD
  • Support on-line volume expansion & migration
  • Support multiple RAID volumes & instant availability
  • Optional features include RAID 6, Snapshot, N-way Mirror

EnhanceRAID™ T5 IP Dual GbE iSCSI Features & Benefits:

  • Hardware RAID Intel 80331 500Mhz 64-bit RISC Processor
  • Host Bandwidth Dual GbE iSCSI and backward compatible
  • Disk Support: Serial ATA I&II at 3 Gb/s
  • Built in remote access for event log and e-mail notification
  • RAID levels supported 0, 1, 0+1, 3, 5, 6 & JBOD
  • Support on-line volume expansion & migration
  • Support multiple RAID volumes & instant availability
  • Optional features include RAID 6, Snapshot, N-way Mirror
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