DDPs from Ardis Technologies are shared storage servers with the audio/video file system A/V FS under the hood. A/V FS is developed for media and entertainment. DDPs come with hard disks, SSDs or a combination of both. The combination gives the best of both worlds: high predictable performance with large capacity at the best price. This is achieved using project caching. Project caching is folders and files aware. Most NAS systems use a cache mechanism, which has no knowledge of folders and files. This is not the best solution for M & E. Material in M & E is organized in projects using folder/subfolder structures.
So the ideal shared storage system for M & E is one with project caching. Project caching can either be automated or manually controlled. The cache modes are ingesting to cache with copy through to the hard disks. Or on demand or pinned from hard disks to cache. Any of these modes can be invoked any time without interfering with your computer operations. Within A/V FS, project data can be transferred internally between cache and hard disks with no effect on users and leaving the directory tree unchanged. These transfer mechanisms can be automated or manually managed per project. Just by opening the project the caching can start. When a project is finished either do nothing or press clear. For more details on the DDP visit http://www.ddpsan.com.
