Avid NEXIS

Avid NEXIS is the media industry’s most comprehensive and reliable shared storage solution. Offering efficient, scalable storage tiering on premises and in the cloud. Optimised to accelerate media workflows, it enables teams to collaborate faster. And achieve better efficiency and security across flash, online, nearline, and archive storage.

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• On premises storage—Purchase an Avid NEXIS hardware storage engine with Avid NEXIS | VFS software; add an Avid NEXIS | EDGE subscription to enable access and collaboration from anywhere
• On premises with cloud flexibility—Purchase an Avid NEXIS hardware storage engine with an Avid NEXIS | FLEX subscription, enabling you to migrate your file system to the cloud whenever you’re ready; add an Avid NEXIS | EDGE subscription to enable access and collaboration from anywhere
• Hybrid—Purchase an Avid NEXIS hardware storage engine with Avid NEXIS | VFS software for on-premises storage, plus an Avid NEXIS | Cloud subscription for access from anywhere
• Cloud-based storage—Purchase an Avid NEXIS | Cloud subscription for storage tiering in the cloud for access from anywhere
• Bring your own cloud—Purchase an Avid NEXIS | FLEX subscription and bring the power of Avid NEXIS to your existing Azure cloud storage

Mix and match Avid NEXIS enterprise-class E- and F-series engines to create a single pool of tiered storage, enabling you to start small and grow your system as your business grows. Scale capacity and performance by adding more Media Packs to an engine—or additional engines to a system—enabling up to 10+ PB of raw storage and more than 30 GB/s of total bandwidth.

Avid NEXIS | F2
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 F2
• Bandwidth: Up to 480 MB/s per F2
• Network interface: 10/25GbE SFP28

Avid NEXIS | F2X
Storage expansion for Avid NEXIS | F2

• Drives: Supports 1 Media Pack (10 HDDs) in a 60 TB, 100 TB, or 140 TB capacity
• Scalability: Adds an additional 60–140 TB to F2
• Bandwidth: Adds an additional 480 MB/s to F2
• Network interface: 10/25GbE SFP28

Avid NEXIS | F5
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 F5
• Bandwidth: Up to 3.8 GB/s per F5
• Network interface: 40GbE and 50GbE QSFP+

Avid NEXIS | F5 NL
High-density nearline storage for all media production environments

• Drives: Supports 4 or 8 Media Packs (40 or 80 HDDs) in a 160 TB capacity
• Scalability: 640 TB–1.28 PB per F5 NL
• Bandwidth: Up to 1 GB/s per F5 NL
• Network interface: 10GbE SFP28

System Director Appliance (SDA+)
Increase Avid NEXIS scalability and redundancy (required for F5 and F5 NL)

• Choice of two file system licenses
  • Standard—Supports up to 24 Media Packs, up to 3.8 PB of total storage, and up to 165 active clients
  • Advanced—Supports up to 64 Media Packs, up to 10+ PB of total storage, and up to 330 active clients
• Performance: Enables high availability
• Files: Increases file support from 8 million up to 28 million
• Redundancy: Provides added protection when used with the Redundant Controller

Avid NEXIS | F2 SSD
For Editorial finishing, VFX, Animation, DI, Color grading

• Drives: Supports up to two SSD Media Packs (20 SSDs)
• Scalability: 38.4–307TB
• Bandwidth: Greater than 6GBps from a single SSD Media Pack
• Network interface: Dual 100GbE per storage controller

Avid NEXIS E-SERIES  
Discontinued but please call us for a support contract renewal price

Avid NEXIS | E4

Medium-density integrated storage engine
Up to two Media Packs of 10 drives (6 TB, 10 TB, or 14 TB) each for a total storage capacity of 60 TB–280 TB maximum per engine, with up to 1.2 GB/s of bandwidth

Avid NEXIS | E2 SSD

Small-footprint all-flash array storage engine
One SSD Media Pack (9.6 TB, 19.2 TB, or 38.4 TB, offering up to 3 GB/s of bandwidth)

Full details can be found at https://www.avid.com/products/avid-nexis

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