Veracity, CSTORE8-2U-US, COLDSTORE 8-Bay 2U Unit with USA Power Cables, Sequential Video Storage Technology
COLDSTORE 2U is ideal for smaller projects requiring affordable high storage capacity, extended disk lifetimes, long file-retention and simple system management.
Reliability Assured
Linear Array of Idle Disks (L.A.I.D™) technology combined with unique Sequential disk Filing System (S.F.S™) produces a powerfully simple system which can provide generous storage capacity at low cost. Whilst simple in concept, this delivers a highly reliable storage system which dramatically extends disk lifetime even when using the lowest cost disks.
Low Power, Low Cost
COLDSTORE 2U is designed to provide all the key features and reliability of COLDSTORE technology at a lower cost and in a smaller rackmount format. It is aimed at small to medium-sized projects with camera counts up to 100 channels with typical bit-rates. With a Gigabit Ethernet port, the system can handle up to 600Mbps of video traffic, depending upon integration.
Extended Disk Lifetimes
Disks are used sequentially, with all of the disks not in use being switched off, saving power and thus greatly reducing temperature, vibration and wear - the three primary disk killers. The system uses a unique mirrored overlapping-pair writing pattern to provide full data redundancy during the critical writing process. This delivers the redundancy of RAID1 on write, but unlike RAID1, does not require double the number of disks. Within the disk, the sequential disk filing system eliminates vibration from the read/write head and lowers operating temperature. Within the array, the use of sequential overlapping mirrored writing pairs requires only two active disks at any one time with the others switched off. This greatly reduces wear and further reduces array vibration and operating temperature. Thus every disk is off, on average, for 87% of the time. Disks automatically switch on for playback, but typically playback from non-writing disks is infrequent and hardly affects the average duty cycle.
Purpose-Designed System
COLDSTORE 2U is built around an industry standard main-board system with a power-efficient CPU and standard disk backplanes. Even a fully populated 160TB array will use around 40 watts. This low power consumption extends the electronic component lifetime, which, combined with extended disk lifetimes, reduced cooling costs and lower UPS purchase cost, results in a very low overall total cost of ownership.
Configuration + Management
COLDSTORE 2U is simple to configure, manage and monitor through Veracity's universal site configuration tool, SITESCAPE. This Windows application allows automatic device discovery, configuration of settings, analysis of disks and a basic level of diagnostics.
Simple Disk Management
COLDSTORE 2U can use almost any make, model and capacity of 3.5" SATA disk drives including any mix of drives. Disks may be added "on the fly" and will automatically be incorporated into the array. The physical location of specific time spans can be identified through SITESCAPE and disks may be extracted at any time. Despite being only 2U high, this COLDSTORE can provide up to 160TB of disk capacity (140TB effective) at a very low power consumption. For example, 112TB is sufficient for up to 90 cameras at 3Mbps per camera for 30 days. Veracity's configuration tool SITESCAPE, combined with the COLDSTORE storage system is user friendly and the hard disks are easy to manage by system integrators and end-users alike.
Integration
Veracity works very closely with a number of Video Management System (VMS) suppliers worldwide to ensure that their VMS systems are compatible with COLDSTORE 2U. Please visit the storage section of Veracity website for the latest VMS compatibility status information. Veracity also provides a comprehensive SDK for VMS manufacturers who wish to develop support for COLDSTORE.
Embedded NVR System Options
All current COLDSTORE platforms provide two embedded NVR options for different surveillance applications. The first is Veracity's COLDSTREAM NVR, recording up to 64 RTSP or ONVIF Profile S compatible IP camera channels in the 2U model. (100ch in the 3U and 4U models). It is fully scalable and compatible with Veracity's VIEWSCAPE and TITAN VISION integrated security management systems. It also supports any third-party client application which supports ONVIF Profile G (recording and playback). The second is the embedded Nx Witness VMS and client application from Network Optix (as supplied by Veracity). For details on this option, see the COLDSTORE NX datasheets.
