Watson: Every image from the film had to be scanned and stored for manipulation, and with a single frame representing anything up to 12 megabytes we are talking about a lot of storage [see NetApp Joins Fellowship].
[Ed note: Hang on a second. How fortuitous was that? We were actually talking about his sideburns. Check them out: He is Bilbo Baggins in The Fellowship of the Ring.]
Byte and Switch: Thats amazing. Anyway, so why didnt the film company go for an EMC refrigerator-sized system if all they needed was lots of capacity?
Watson: Weta Digital, the production company, considered other options, namely a SAN, but SANs can prove to be too complex and too pricey for a small-scale operation like this one.
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