Not only does Petablok have the capability to store up to 2.04Pb of storage per high density unit, but when coupled with Wavestore’s Hyper RAID redundancy and Ecostore hard drive energy saving technology, according to Wavestore, it can also claim to be the world’s most efficient and robust video management and storage solution for applications which generate extremely large amounts of data.

Pre-installed with Wavestore’s video management software (VMS), Petablok is designed to provide a simple to implement and cost-effective solution for the increasing number of video surveillance projects which require multi-megapixel images captured by high numbers of cameras to be stored over long periods of time, with lightning fast search and video recall.

“Petablok is ideal for projects such as those in the Middle East, where it is commonplace to store recorded video for up to 120 days due to legal compliance,” said Julian Inman, Head of Product Management for Wavestore. “However, it will also offer a highly effective option around the world for large-scale applications such as airports and ports, city surveillance, utilities and other mission-critical sites where long-retention times, or the recording of many storage hungry, high resolution cameras, is required.

“These may be located across multiple sites and yet all controlled and managed from a central control room. Up to 255 Petabloks can be grouped together to provide a massive 520.2 Petabytes of storage potential and with Wavestore’s VMS onboard, this truly offers a complete video management solution for projects of any size. Furthermore, system designers can mix-and-match Petablok with other Wavestore NVRs and HVRs across an end-user’s entire estate to create the perfect seamless solution.”

Petablok is available in various sizes from 48 HDD bays (480TB) taking up 8U of space, to 204 HDD bays (2.04PB) accommodated within 16U. This enables each Petablok to store images captured by over 235 4K resolution cameras in real time, for 120 days. The ability to offer flexible storage options, which can be expanded as the overall system grows, is enhanced by the option to add failover in order to provide the ultimate in system robustness and reliability, whilst negating any single point of failure.

The resilience offered by Wavestore’s proprietary Hyper RAID technology suite means that the risk of data loss due to hard drive failure, can be reduced to almost zero. In addition, Wavestore’s innovative Ecostore technology is able to significantly increase the sustainability of a video surveillance solution as it facilitates the spin-down of hard drives which are not in a read/write state.