Xsan

Xsan: Video Formats and Bandwidth

As many environments will use multiple formats it is important to define the required bandwidth for various formats.  By lowering or increasing your format you will have the capacity to have more or less streams concurrently running against your SAN respectively:

Standard Definition

MiniDV, DVCAM, and DVCPRO – 3.6MBps

DVCPRO 50 – 7.7MBps

Uncompressed SD (8-bit) – 20MBps

Uncompressed SD (10-bit) – 27MBps

Compressed High Definition

DVCPRO HD – 5.8MBps to 14MBps

Apple ProRes 422 – 5.25 to 27.5 MBps

Redcode RAW (24fps) – 28 MBps

Uncompressed High Definition

720p 24fps – 46MBps

720p 30fps – 50MBps

720p 60fps – 100MBps

1080 24p (8-bit) – 98MBps

1080i (8-bit) – 120MBps

1080 24p (10-b it) – 110MBps

1080i (10-bit) – 165MBps

Redcode 4k – 324 MBps – 1GBps