GRID

The most innovative take on Scale-Out NAS

ELEMENTS GRID is a powerful, software-defined, all-NVMe storage platform designed to meet the extreme performance needs of modern media and entertainment workflows. Built using Ceph, an open-source, distributed storage system, GRID delivers exceptional speed, scalability, and rock-solid reliability in a compact 2U form factor.

Key Facts

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Capacity

  • • start small and scale seamlessly to multiple exabytes in a single filesystem
  • • initial configuration starts at 92 TB per node
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Speed

  • • multi-gigabyte per second throughput for 4K, 8K, and beyond
  • • low-latency architecture optimized for demanding media workflows
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Scalability

  • • expand capacity and performance instantly
  • • add nodes without downtime
Product Details

Add capacity and performance – without downtime

Designed for post-production, VFX, broadcast, and content creation, GRID provides a strong foundation for demanding workflows, combining 200Gbit Ethernet connectivity to eliminate bottlenecks in high-resolution editing, rendering, and collaborative processes. When paired seamlessly with our Media Library, GRID goes beyond storage, giving users the flexibility to efficiently organize, store, retrieve, share, and comment on large volumes of media assets.

Unified file & object storage

CephFS for scalable storage and S3 Gateway for cloud-native object workflows. Distributed, fault-tolerant performance, ensuring no single point of failure and no data loss.

Built-in resilience

GRID ensures high availability and data durability through advanced features like replication, snapshots, erasure coding, and self-healing capabilities. Even if a disk or entire node fails, data remains fully available, thanks to automated integrity checks.

Hybrid workflow ready

Full Windows and macOS integration via standard NAS protocols (SMB, NFS). Active Directory compatibility for centralized access management, plus optional Media Library and bin locking for advanced workflows.

Effortless scalability

Easily scale out by adding new nodes, expanding capacity and performance on the fly, with zero downtime or data migration required.

Media-optimized architecture

Low latency, high IOPS, and optimized metadata performance for seamless media playback and asset management. Includes ELEMENTS’ workflow enhancement tools for demanding media environments.

From real-time editing to managing expanding media libraries and enabling secure archiving, ELEMENTS GRID streamlines infrastructure, enhances performance and flexibility, and overcomes the traditional limits of classic storage systems.

Product Features

More than media storage

Discover our unique features that make your daily work less complicated and more efficient – with intuitive tools that ease your workflow.

Tech-Specs

Capacity
  • starting at 92TB raw capacity
  • up to 1474TB (1.47PB) raw capacity in a 2U chassis
Chassis
  • 2U rack-mountable up to 24 NVME drives
Speed
  • up to 70 GB/s per chassis
Scalability
  • up to 5.89 Petabyte raw capacity in a 8U cluster
  • scales to 1000s of nodes and exabytes of data
Weight
  • approx. 38,0 kg
Power
  • 1200 W per PSU (redundant)
Dimensions
  • L x W x H 650mm x 430mm x 88mm
Connectivity

• 200Gbit Ethernet

FAQ

Users are familiar with the speed and convenience of directly attached storage when working with media assets. Unfortunately, this type of storage isn‘t suitable to collaborative workflows, as projects and assets can‘t be shared conveniently between different workstations in real-time. ELEMENTS storage solutions are designed specifically to share media files across all platforms and application while providing consistent high performance for all workstations.

First off, ELEMENTS storage has unique tools and features embedded that are specifically designed for users to share media – seamlessly and simultaneously. ELEMENTS‘ media aware interface allows for easy access to view, comment and even edit media assets remotely and provides the option to simply set-up tasks for workflow automation.

Standard IT workflows have very different read and write patterns, and low latencies are not essential. Media workflows are a lot more time-critical; hence, low latencies and high bandwidth are crucial for post-production and broadcast workflows, otherwise stuttering video and other issues will occur.

Media storage is optimized to deliver high-performance for every workstation connected, and a specialized file system allows heterogeneous networks with numerous applications on different operating systems to share media assets efficiently from the same storage pool.

There are virtually no limitations, as ELEMENTS‘ task manager can easily be set up to perform any task, such as automatic backup or defragmentation, moving or archiving content, or any task useful in your particular workflow.

The most common use of workflow automation are concerning the approval process, for example moving approved files to a certain folder, or rejected files to another folder. But with the option to set up automation tasks across users, user groups, content location or any other parameter, the possibilities are endless.

Yes, with ELEMENTS you can share content seamlessly across virtually all NLE applications, including Avid. Even Avid bin-locking and Avid project sharing is supported, as ELEMENTS fully emulates an ISIS/Unity environment. ELEMENTS GATEWAY provides the same functionalities for any SAN or NAS (non-ELEMENTS) storage.

Every ELEMENTS product can be accessed via a HTML5-based web browser, providing ultimate convenience across all kinds of devices.

Glossar

COBIT

COBIT ist ein international anerkanntes Rahmenwerk für das Management und die Governance von Informationstechnologie. Es bietet ein umfassendes Regelwerk von Prinzipien, Praktiken und analytischen Instrumenten und Modellen zur Steuerung der unternehmensweiten IT.