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MediaHarmony file server
Our file server, MediaHarmony, is also based on commodity hardware and open source software. It uses a SAMBA file server with virtual file system extensions to provide the additional features needed to support multiple editing clients. The storage capacity is scaleable and RAID-5 is used to provide resilience.

The file system extensions we have developed provide key enhancements. Editing packages, such as Avid, create private data files which are for their exclusive use. MediaHarmony keeps these private files hidden from other systems so one copy of the video content can be shared by multiple editors without these additional files being corrupted. Another feature of MediaHarmony is that it can unwrap MXF media files on-the-fly as a client requests the content. This allows clients that are not able to handle MXF to receive instead just the encoded content, perhaps as DVCPro50, etc.