Sonnet IBC2008 Product Preview - Stand 7.J09

July 11, 2008

Source: Sonnet

FusionTM F2 1TB Portable Storage System Building on the enormous success of the award-winning 640GB FusionTM F2 portable two-drive RAID SATA storage system, a diminutive yet exceptionally fast solution for storage in film/video editing and professional content capture applications, Sonnet has introduced a new higher capacity and performance 1TB model.

The Fusion F2 1TB delivers speed, reliability, and convenience for on-location video capture or remote use when grid power is unavailable. The system's two 500GB/5400 rpm 2.5-inch drives are mounted side-by-side in a rugged aluminum enclosure just a bit larger than two stacked CD cases, ensuring secure storage in a low-profile design measuring just 5.9 inches by 6.2 inches by 0.72 inches. Internally, Fusion F2's drives are individually shock-isolated, virtually eliminating cross-coupled vibration — a potential source of soft-error-induced skipped frames. Fusion F2 is cool, quiet, and energy-efficient; the side-by-side drive placement increases the metal case's cooling surface area, thereby eliminating the need for a fan.

Sonnet's Fusion F2 features two eSATA data connections, draws its power from a computer's FireWire® port, and is designed for use with the Sonnet TempoTM SATA ExpressCard/34 host adapter for MacBook® Pro and PC notebooks. With its drives formatted as a RAID 0 volume, Fusion F2 delivers remarkable performance with sustained data transfer rates of up to 134 MB/sec read and write (nearly twice as fast as a pair of FireWire 800 drives) and supports professional content capture in conjunction with an AJA® Video Systems' Io HD.

Fusion F2 is ideal for use on location as well as in the office, offering flexibility and interoperability to support Mac OS® X, Windows® Vista, Windows XP Professional, and Linux. It is compatible with capture cards from AJA, Blackmagic Design, Matrox, and Bluefish444 and works with all mainstream media editing applications, including Apple® Final Cut Pro® and Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS3.

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