An ideal fit for digital media applications requiring shared, real-time storage with features such as ingest, playout, archive, edit-in-place, collaborative editing, transcoding and over-the-top (OTT) adaptive bitrate streaming. Its exceptional performance is enabled by a proprietary distributed file system and the installation of the MediaGrid file system driver (FSD) on each client server. Media operations can start with smaller MediaGrid systems, as little as 48 TB of capacity, and seamlessly scale to petabytes of capacity and tens of gigabytes per second of throughput. An industry-leading, high-density storage option, up to 672 TB of raw capacity in 5-RU, can reduce rack space and lower storage-related costs, minimizing total cost of ownership (TCO) through its exceptional price/performance capabilities.