The OpenDrives "Less Duo More" Ultra Special Promotion
Optimum Results with Ready-Built Appliances Available IMMEDIATELY. 50% Off. No Holds. While Supplies Last. First Come, First Serve.
hardware scarcity & price hikes preventing you from doing more?
Introducing OpenDrives Duo. It let's you "duo" more FOR less!
Description:
• Profile: OpenDrives Optimum 15 Compute moule paired with 2 H12 HDD SAS capacity modules
• Performance: Up tp 5 GB/s (Max up to 15GB/s) of sustained multi-stream sequential throughput optimized for seamless editorial playback
• Capacity: 325TB usable capacity
• Support: 3 years of enterprise 24x7 support (hardware, software, and remote configuration)
• Software extras: Atlas + OpenDrives Edge + Containerization and access to Containers Marketplace
• Pricing: $150,000 USD (MSRP value: ~$300,000)
• Availability: Estimated shipping two weeks post signed PO
what makes duo different?
Flash-Like Experience on SAS HDDs (Atlas Performance Engine, the Intelligent ARC Engine): The Duo leverages ZFS architecture combined with OpenDrives' custom performance tunings with our Atlas software and a massive 768 GB RAM tier. This advanced caching layer pre-fetches data intelligently, giving editors a responsive, sub-millisecond "flash speed" experience at the glass while maintaining spinning-disk capacity economics.
Purpose-Built Media-Centric I/O Profiling: OpenDrives has spent 15+ years fine-tuning storage platforms specifically for the Media & Entertainment industry. The Atlas Performance Engine provides accelerated multi-user sequential video performance, preventing the dropped frames and agonizing project load times common to generic IT storage systems.
Compute-to-Data Edge Acceleration: This is a fully integrated software appliance, not just a bucket of disks. With full containerization support via our Containers Marketplace, users can pull decentralized applications (like transcoders or automated file taggers) directly onto the storage node, running heavy pipelines closer to the data to slash local latency and network saturation.
Turnkey Atlas 2.11 Software Out of the Box: The Duo bypasses all corporate upgrade friction. Every unit ships with the modern Atlas 2.11 software environment completely unlocked. This natively includes unlimited capacity licensing, open-source interoperability (NFS, SMB, S3), and full access to the new OpenDrives Edge hybrid cloud-edge performance accelerator to slash cloud egress fees and enable local-speed remote workflows.
Who Deserves to Duo More?
Ideal customer Profile & Workflows/use cases
• 10–20 active simultaneous editors/artists maximum
• Episodic Editorial (Offline/Proxy Staging)
• VFX Asset Libraries & Render-Farm Drop Zones
• Nearline Active Archiving & High-Throughput Backup
• Independent Creative & Advertising Agencies (Unregulated)
• Legacy OpenDrives Customers still on Atlas 2.6 who would like to experience OpenDrives Edge and the Containers Marketplace (Duo is your 0-risk software sandbox)
• Needing to consolidate data silos spread across on-premises and the cloud
• Looking for local, fast storage to integrate with their Iconik-based workflows
LESS DUO MORE: Business Outcomes
With Duo, you get more for less time, money, and effort:
Immediate Supply Chain Bypass. While competitors quote months-long (6-12 months on average) lead times and multi-thousand-percent budget premiums on raw parts, the customer secures 325TB of tier-1 storage immediately.
Unlocked CapEx Efficiency. Enterprise-grade high-performance and reliability hardware with a 3-year premium support wrapper at a 50% discount ($150K).
Future-Proofed Scale and Workflows. While legacy enterprise data storage vendors charge you an ongoing per-TB capacity penalty (valued at up to $145,000), and mid-market options force you to pay separate subscription fees for remote file caching and edge sync workflows (valued at up to $20,000 - $35,000), OpenDrives builds everything directly into the license. You get seamless S3 cloud access, and you get the new OpenDrives Edge hybrid cloud-edge performance accelerator product completely free. This ensures your distributed team edits 8K timelines at local LAN speeds without triggering third-party software bills or cloud egress penalties. By turning off these separate vendor meters, OpenDrives saves your studio around $100K over a 3-year lifecycle. So not only do you get future-proofed workflows, you are also increasing creative velocity, protecting project margins, and hitting hard delivery deadlines without system downtime or dropped frames.
Financial Predictability with Eradicated Unplanned Scale Penalties . With the price of physical drives pushed upward by global supply chain realities and hardware scarcity, you can't afford to get locked into something that cannot scale predictably. You need a solution that's reliable, trustworthy, and cost predictable. With OpenDrives, you stop paying the industry's standard, yet hidden data taxes and don't face a second penalty on the software side. You pay a flat, cost-predictable, per-controller software license with unlimited capacity scaling. When your production demands grow from TBs to PBs, your license costs stay the same. Furthermore, by natively integrating S3 hybrid cloud mount and hybrid cloud-edge data movement without multi-tier upgrades or custom engineering fees, OpenDrives' Atlas software saves you an average of $100K over a standard 3-year total cost of ownership period compared to legacy enterprise storage. Your budget goes entirely into physical performance, unmetered capacity scaling, and bundled top-tier engineering consultative services, not vendor code lock-in. Basically, OpenDrives doesn't charge you for what the rest do.
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