Avid NEXIS Products
Avid NEXIS | E2 is a small-footprint integrated storage engine that offers real-time editorial collaboration, powerful scalability and performance, and high availability for small to mid-size video and audio production teams.
- Drives: Supports 1 Media Pack (10 HDDs) in a 60 TB, 100 TB, or 140 TB capacity
- Scalability: 60–140 TB per E2
- Bandwidth: Up to 600 MB/s per E2
- Network interface: 10GbE SFP+
Avid NEXIS | E2 SSD is an enterprise-class, all-flash array (AFA) storage engine that offers the highest performance for coloring, finishing, VFX, and other specialized workflows.
- Drives: Supports 1 Media Pack (10 SSDs) in a 19.2 TB or 38.4 TB capacity
- Scalability: 19.2–38.4 TB per E2 SSD
- Bandwidth: Up to 3 GB/s per E2 SSD
- Network interface: 40GbE QSFP
Avid NEXIS | E4 is an enterprise-class, medium-density integrated storage engine that offers real-time editorial collaboration and high availability, scalability, and performance with built-in 10GbE for mid- to large-scale video and audio production environments.
- Drives: Supports up to 2 Media Packs (20 HDDs) in 60 TB, 100 TB, or 140 TB capacities
- Scalability: 60–280 TB per E4
- Bandwidth: Up to 1.2 GB/s per E4
- Network interface: 10GbE SFP+
Avid NEXIS | E5 is an enterprise-class, medium-density integrated storage engine that offers real-time editorial collaboration and high availability, scalability, and performance with built-in 10GbE for large, demanding broadcast and post-production environments.
- Drives: Supports up to 8 Media Packs (80 HDDs) in 60 TB, 100 TB, or 140 TB capacities
- Scalability: 240 TB–1.12 PB per E5
- Bandwidth: Up to 3.2 GB/s per E5
- Network interface: 40GbE QSFP
Avid NEXIS | E5NL is a high-density, disk-based nearline and archive storage system that offers integrated media management and proxy archive; it provides high scalability, from 480 TB to 960 TB of redundant nearline hard disk storage per engine, and up to more than 7.5 PB in a single nearline system to support any size broadcast or post-production environment.
- Drives: Supports 4 or 8 Media Packs (40 or 80 HDDs) in a 160 TB capacity
- Scalability: 640 TB–1.28 PB per E5 NL
- Bandwidth: Up to 1 GB/s per E5 NL
- Network interface: 10GbE SFP+
Avid NEXIS | PRO is a professional-class storage solution purpose-built for independent professionals, small post-production, house of worship, government, corporate, and media education environments; offers real-time editorial collaboration (supporting 1–24 clients) and great scalability and performance; provides 40–160 TB of storage capacity across up to four engines at a budget-conscious price point.
- Drives: Supports 1 Media Pack (10 HDDs) in a 40 TB capacity
- Scalability: 40–160 TB by connecting up to four PRO engines together
- Bandwidth: Up to 600 MB/s per PRO
- Network interface: 10GbE
The System Director Appliance is an option for Avid NEXIS (required for all Avid NEXIS | E5 and E5 NL engines) that increases system throughput, storage capacity, file count, client count, and redundancy, supporting up to 64 Media Packs in a single multi-engine Avid NEXIS system.
Avid NEXIS | Cloudspaces is a cloud-based subscription service for all Avid NEXIS systems that enables teams to safely park completed projects in the cloud to free up Avid NEXIS storage space, as well as sync on-premises Avid NEXIS workspaces to the cloud for easy offsite backup.
- Capacity: 5–400 TB of cloud storage
- Availability: Add-on subscription for all Avid NEXIS storage engines
Avid Nexis Media Packs are packages of 10 media drives for Avid NEXIS storage engines that scale bandwidth linearly as you add capacity to optimize performance. Media Packs are available as follows:
- 20 TB, 60 TB, or 100 TB HDD Media Pack—provides up to 600 MB/s of bandwidth when used with E4 and/or E2 engines, or up to 400 MB/s with E5 engines
- 9.6 TB, 19.2 TB, or 38.4 TB SSD Media Pack—provides up to 3 GB/s of bandwidth (available for Avid NEXIS | E2 SSD engines only)
- 120 TB HDD Media Pack—provides the highest density, cost-effective storage (available for Avid NEXIS | E5 NL engines only)
The optional Avid NEXIS Redundant Controller provides system high availability redundancy when combined with Avid NEXIS storage engines and the System Director Appliance.