Overview

EFS 40NL is a high-capacity nearline storage node that provides cost-efficient, quickly accessible media “parking” for production environments. It’s designed to hold large volumes of footage that must remain readily available without the expense of production-speed storage. The node integrates with the EditShare file system and media-management workflows so teams can archive, retrieve and serve media with low latency while keeping overall storage costs down.

Features and Capabilities

• Scale and Density: The 40NL delivers very high storage density in a single chassis allowing capacity growth while minimizing rack space and cost per TB. It is intended as a high-density nearline node for parking media that needs to be accessible quickly.
• Purpose-built Nearline: Designed specifically for nearline workflows — immediate access to parked media without the performance (and cost) profile of an online production tier. This makes it suitable for long-term staging, backups and cost-sensitive media retention.
• EditShare File System Integration: Full integration with the EditShare distributed file system provides a single namespace, centralized management and seamless visibility of parked media to editors and asset-management tools.
• Collaboration & Accessibility: Media remains addressable for collaborative workflows (project/bin visibility and controlled access) so teams can find and restore media into online workflows when needed.
• Data Protection & Resilience: Configurable protection modes and integration with EditShare’s archive and DR tooling enable reliable retention and recovery of parked media even in hardware-failure scenarios.
• Cost Efficiency: Optimized for lower cost per TB versus production-tier nodes, providing an economical place to keep large volumes of footage while preserving quick accessibility.
• Flexible Deployment: Can be used as part of a multi-node scale-out cluster (nearline tier alongside online/SSD/NVMe tiers) and works with EditShare synchronization and archive workflows for tiering and replication.
• Technical Profile: Typical electrical, thermal and mechanical specifications are targeted at datacenter/rack deployments; the product datasheet lists specific power, dimensions and environmental operating ranges.