Recently Ardis Technologies collaborated with Sunteq as a new dealer in Slowakei on the delivery of the central storage solution. The SSD portion is built on the DDP10EF system with NVMe SSD drives and support for the NVMe-OF RDMA protocol, which enabled us to achieve real-world read speeds of over 8 GB/s per client. The HDD portion is based on the EXR78 chassis. Both parts form a single logical volume with a combined capacity of 300 TB + 1008 TB.

A fire in 2023 destroyed most of the technological equipment of the Slovak Film Institute (SFÚ) in Bratislava, without which it was no longer possible to continue the Institute’s work in preserving our film heritage.

The company SUNTEQ won the competitive tender among other suppliers with a proposal to deliver a central storage system, computing equipment, infrastructure components, and full integration of new technologies.

The requirements for the central storage system were specified with regard to the future development of workstations and the technological demands that may arise from the transition to new workflows and formats:

* Capability to support at least 20 clients (macOS, Windows OS, Linux OS)
* Hybrid storage system with SSD and HDD, with a minimum capacity of 300 TB to 1 PB, easily expandable
* Internal SSD data throughput of at least 40 GB/s with support for NVMe-OF RDMA; or 20 GB/s for HDD
* Minimum data throughput per individual client of 8 GB/s, optimized for 4K DPX format
* Connectivity via Fibre Optics