The shared storage DDP10EF is set up connected to Autodesk Flames using AVFS/NVME-oF/RDMA as connection protocol. The DDP10EF comes with up to ten raid protected NVME SSDs and can have a bandwidth of 40GB/s with up to 11GB/s performance on Windows or Linux using 100GbE/QSFP28 cards. On Mac the bandwidth can be up to 6GB/s using AVFS/iSCSI as protocol. The NVME SSD capacity currently can be up to 307TB per DDP10EF. 

The DDP10EF can also be integrated with raid protected spindle storage arrays. The DDP10EF then can be configured as Project Cache. The system can access the SSDs using AVFS/NVME-oF/RDMA and use AVFS/iSCSI for the spindles. For less demanding operations SMB is available. The system can be used for audio video or film format from standard 24 Bit, 48KHz audio to 8K DPX and beyond and with any M & E application. It comes with native Avid bin locking support. Hard link support for Flame and others is included. 

The workflow with each DDP starts with creating a folder per project. Folders then can be given volume properties so that the folder can be mounted, cached and access right and quota can be set. Project caching with SSDs integrated with spindle array(s) is a good way to get a future proof high performance shared storage system with sufficient capacity within budget. Project Caching is demonstrated with a miniDDP24DF and spindle array attached. Further for Project Caching see  www.ddpsan.com/technology and then select Welcome to the DDP World.