Case Study: Sub7 achieves faster media management and secure storage with iXsystems TrueNAS

Sub7 - Customer Case Study

Sub7, a media and television production house, was grappling with the organizational and performance challenges of managing over half a petabyte of video footage across hundreds of individual external hard drives. Their decentralized system caused them to waste nearly 5% of their work year, or roughly ten days, searching for files. Their outdated direct access storage lacked the necessary capacity for high-resolution files and was bottlenecked by slow transfer speeds, prompting their search for a new solution. They chose to work with iXsystems to implement a TrueNAS storage array.

The solution from iXsystems provided Sub7 with a centralized TrueNAS system configured for high capacity and data integrity using the ZFS file system. The results were transformative, delivering 120% faster writes and 300% faster reads, which slashed data transfer times from hours to minutes. This eliminated the time previously wasted managing media, providing a 100% decrease in that administrative overhead. The move saved Sub7 from continual investment in obsolete drives and is expected to provide a full return on investment in just two and a half years.