Maximum Throughput

The Sledgehammer family represents the next generation in storage infrastructure designed for digital editing and render environments.

 

High-performance NAS

Sledgehammer NAS takes network-attached storage for post and broadcast facilities to an entirely new level. It is the ideal solution for computer graphics, color grading, compositing, editing, and as a high-performance file server for 2D/3D render farms. The system has been designed from the ground up to maximize network throughput. With aggregate sustained network throughput exceeding 300MB/sec., Sledgehammer NAS employs the latest in high-density storage arrays, and can be scaled quickly and easily. Starting from a base configuration of 2TB, it can be expanded to a capacity of just over 32TB per system.

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Sledgehammer HD!O

Sledgehammer HD!O is a Network- Attached Storage (NAS) server designed to bridge the data and video worlds by acting as both an ext remely fast file server and a multi-format video playback and capture device. Incorporating both in a single, centralized storage system makes it simple to access the stored image and audio contents as either sequences of files or as video.

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Sledgehammer SD!O

Sledgehammer SD!O is a Network Attached Storage (NAS) server designed to bridge the data and video worlds by acting as both an extremely fast file server and a multi-format video playback and capture device. Incorporating both in a single, centralized storage system makes it simple to access the stored image and audio co n tents as either sequences of files or as video.

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Sledgehammer NLS

Shared storage for your non-linear editing (NLE) systems doesnt have to be complicated anymore. Sledgehammer NLS (Non-Linear Storage) is the ideal shared storage solution for NLE systems. With its ability to deliver concurrent real-time I/O to multiple systems, material can be digitized directly onto Sledgehammer NLS and accessed by every editor on the network. Sledgehammer NLS is a true data sharing system that eliminates the need to digitize content to individual NLE stations.

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MAXmedia
Read more about the media management software for Sledgehammer
— Data Sheet (PDF, 2.0 MB)

Sledgehammer NAS
Read more about the world's fastest NAS system.
— Data Sheet (PDF, 2.0 MB)

Sledgehammer SD!O
Read more about this one-of-a-kind media bridge.
— Data Sheet (PDF, 1.3 MB)


Sledgehammer HD!O
Read more about this one-of-a-kind media bridge.
— Data Sheet (PDF, 1.3 MB)

Sledgehammer NLS
Read more about this one-of-a-kind NLE storage device
— Data Sheet (PDF, 1.3 MB)

Xstoner
Read more about this media management software.
— Xstoner Brochure (PDF, 3.5 MB)
— Xstoner & Sledgehammer (PDF, 1.6 MB)
— Download Xstoner

Xstoner 2 is a client/server application that allows Windows® and Macintosh® workstations to share images and clips with Autodesk® Media and Entertainment Editing/Finishing & Effects/ Compositing systems, including Discreet® Inferno®, Discreet Flame®, Discreet Flint®, Discreet Fire®, and Discreet Smoke®. With Xstoner support for SledgehammerT, artists and administrators alike can visually browse clips stored on their Sledgehammer or Autodesk systems, irrespective of the software version of either system. Files can be easily transferred among different Autodesk framestores or between the Sledgehammer centralized storage and the Autodesk framestores.

Xstoner drastically improves the end customer reviewing process including generating dailies in various file formats such as QuickTime movies, MPEG2 and H.264 formats. Xstoner integration with Sledgehammer HD!O, SD!O, and NAS provides a powerful solution for media management across a facility. And with Xstoner, film & video I/O tasks or basic manipulation functions like image format conversion including compression software encoding / decoding, image resizing or LUT conversion can be offloaded from high-end Autodesk systems, freeing up creative workstations for billable work instead of housekeeping functions.

Xstoner has three main parts:

 

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