The Hidden Challenges of 4K Media Production — and How MoSMB Solves Them
Media & Entertainment (M&E) workflows span many phases—video ingest, editing, VFX, rendering, color grading, sound mixing, delivery to TV, cinema or CDNs—and every phase is IO-intensive. As productions embrace multi-camera setups, 4K/8K content, VR/AR, and complex visual effects, storage performance demands soar.
- Massive I/O demands: Post-production tools perform real-time coding, decoding, transcoding and rendering, all while keeping up with required frame rates.
- Collaborative environment: Editors, animators, VFX artists and sound engineers work together—often across different OS platforms—so high-speed network file access is critical.
- Standardized and cost-effective infrastructure: To avoid vendor lock-in, many companies prefer Ethernet connectivity and SMB protocol for NAS access.
Why traditional storage struggles
When you rely on Ethernet without RDMA, every large file transfer can tax the CPU and introduce latency. Even with SMB Multichannel, wire-speed performance beyond 10 GbE is impractical without offload capabilities. This slows down ingest, renders frames slower, and limits scalability—especially detrimental in real-time 4K workflows.
MoSMB — purpose-built for M&E
Ryussi Technologies’ MoSMB, especially the Media Edition, was designed from the ground up to handle the most demanding M&E workflows ﹘ video editing, rendering, VFX, VR/AR and more. Here’s how:
Native support for RDMA (SMB Direct) & SMB Multichannel
MoSMB implements SMB Direct natively over both iWARP and RoCEv2. This enables:
- Wire-speed data transfer over standard Ethernet with near-local-drive performance
- Zero-copy, CPU-bypass transfers, freeing up CPU cycles for compute-intensive video apps like DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro
Built for scale, reliability, and heterogeneity
- Supports Windows, macOS and Linux clients, and integrates with POSIX filesystems and S3-compatible object stores.
- Designed for active-active scale-out clustered deployments, delivering high availability, load balancing and distributed locking across nodes.
- Security features include Kerberos authentication, SMB signing and encryption and ACLs.
Purpose-built for M&E
The Media Edition of MoSMB targets the unique needs of the M&E industry, with high-performance, scalability and availability on POSIX filesystems such as XFS, ZFS, Ceph FS, Lustre, Gluster FS.
Key Benefits of MoSMB for M&E Teams
| Challenge | MoSMB Advantage |
|---|---|
| High bandwidth & low latency | SMB Direct over RDMA delivers near wire-speed in Ethernet environments |
| CPU overhead | RDMA offloads transfers, preserving CPU for video apps |
| Scalability | Clustered, active-active design supports petabytes and billions of files |
| Platform heterogeneity | Unified access from Windows, macOS, Linux—with object or file backends |
| High availability | Distributed locking and cluster failover prevent inconsistency and downtime |
| Security & compliance | Kerberos/AD, encryption, NT ACLs and protocol-compliant architecture |
How MoSMB facilitates modern M&E production
- Artists edit, render, and grade video stored on a MoSMB cluster over Gigabit or 100 GbE networks.
- SMB Direct ensures file transfers happen at full speed with minimal CPU impact.
- Data volumes scale effortlessly across nodes and storage backends.
- Security and compliance are maintained via enterprise protocol features and encryption.
- Legacy tools require no changes—SMB access works the same across environments.
In Summary
The Media & Entertainment industry faces a unique intersection of demanding storage I/O, real-time compute-intensive workflows, and multi-user collaboration. Traditional SMB/NAS setups often buckle under these workloads.
MoSMB—especially its Media Edition—uniquely addresses these with high throughput SMB Direct, scalability, low-latency design, cross-platform support, and enterprise-grade features.
For any production environment committed to 4K/8K, VR, animation, or complex collaborative workflows, MoSMB stands out as the file server engineered to support today’s—and tomorrow’s—creative pipeline.
Ready to accelerate your Media & Entertainment workflows? Experience MoSMB’s high‑performance SMB3 server designed for 4K/8K production, real‑time editing, and collaborative post‑production. Get a free evaluation today by contacting us at sales@ryussi.com or visit www.mosmb.com to learn how MoSMB can power your next‑generation media pipeline.
