Sonnet Technologies New Products at IBC2008

Sonnet Technologies, Inc. of Irvine, Calif., is a leader in providing local storage systems for professional users of Macintosh®, Windows®, and UNIX® systems in the film, video, and broadcast industries. Since its founding in 1986, Sonnet has pioneered and brought to market innovative solutions that enhance the performance and connectivity of Macintosh and industry-standard computers. Today, the company is a world-leading computer hardware upgrade company with a product line featuring a range of high-performance, cost-effective, and reliable storage solutions, as well as a variety of performance-extending upgrade cards. More information is available at www.sonnettech.com.

New Products at IBC2008:

FusionTM F2 1TB Portable Storage System
Building on the enormous success of the award-winning 640GB FusionTM F2 portable two-drive RAID SATA storage system, a diminutive yet exceptionally fast solution for storage in film/video editing and professional content capture applications, Sonnet has introduced a new higher capacity and performance 1TB model.

The Fusion F2 1TB delivers speed, reliability, and convenience for on-location video capture or remote use when grid power is unavailable. The system's two 500GB/5400 rpm 2.5-inch drives are mounted side-by-side in a rugged aluminum enclosure just a bit larger than two stacked CD cases, ensuring secure storage in a low-profile design measuring just 5.9 inches by 6.2 inches by 0.72 inches. Internally, Fusion F2's drives are individually shock-isolated, virtually eliminating cross-coupled vibration — a potential source of soft-error-induced skipped frames. Fusion F2 is cool, quiet, and energy-efficient; the side-by-side drive placement increases the metal case's cooling surface area, thereby eliminating the need for a fan.

Sonnet's Fusion F2 features two eSATA data connections, draws its power from a computer's FireWire® port, and is designed for use with the Sonnet TempoTM SATA ExpressCard/34 host adapter for MacBook® Pro and PC notebooks. With its drives formatted as a RAID 0 volume, Fusion F2 delivers remarkable performance with sustained data transfer rates of up to 134 MB/sec read and write (nearly twice as fast as a pair of FireWire 800 drives) and supports professional content capture in conjunction with an AJA® Video Systems' Io HD.

Fusion F2 is ideal for use on location as well as in the office, offering flexibility and interoperability to support Mac OS® X, Windows® Vista, Windows XP Professional, and Linux. It is compatible with capture cards from AJA, Blackmagic Design, Matrox, and Bluefish444 and works with all mainstream media editing applications, including Apple® Final Cut Pro® and Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS3.

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