Protect $800–$1,000/hr finishing sessions from dropped frames, eliminate uncoordinated scrub slowdowns, and invoice client storage holdings across Linux, TrueNAS, and Unraid.
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Isolates single 148ms p99 tail latency outlier during 24fps/60fps playback
While total pool throughput is healthy at 840 MB/s, Drive 6 in VDEV 2 is pinned in an internal ECC sector retry loop. Exonerates client Thunderbolt docks and 10GbE network switches in 15 seconds.
Standard NAS alerts fire when a drive is already dead. In commercial post-production, silent degradation during active client review passes ruins deliverables.
Enterprise drives accumulate uncorrectable read errors (UREs) and bad sectors over weeks. Too often, the first time a controller flags them is during a grueling rebuild—when a secondary drive drops offline and corrupts the entire pool.
Server rack ambient temperatures surge when finishing suites kick off overnight render queues. Generic monitoring tools either wake sleeping platters 50+ times a day or miss nocturnal 50°C+ heat spikes completely—accelerating drive degradation.
There is zero tolerance for I/O stalls hours before master delivery. When an uncoordinated ZFS scrub or drive resilver cuts pool read throughput by 60% during a live 4K client review, playback stutters and edit bays freeze with zero warning.
Eliminate finger-pointing between editors, network engineers, and storage leads when playback stutters during client reviews.
When 4K ProRes playback stutters, editors immediately blame the storage array. Pillar measures kernel block-layer await times and isolates the critical p99 tail latency. Within 15 seconds, you know whether a single disk is choking on sector retries (140ms await) or if the SAN is clean—exonerating 10GbE network switches and client Thunderbolt docks.
Automated scrubs consume up to 70% of array read bandwidth. Naive linear ETAs fool engineers into assuming an overnight scrub will finish before 9:00 AM client reviews. Pillar models variable scrub velocity to forecast maintenance collisions with active edit hours—giving your team hours of advance notice to throttle or pause parity checks before sessions begin.
Post-production ingest is notoriously lumpy—a 3-day multi-cam shoot can unload 35TB in 48 hours. Copy-on-write filesystems like ZFS suffer severe throughput collapse once pool capacity crosses 80% due to block allocator fragmentation. Pillar models multi-window velocity (24h/7d/30d) to project the exact date your array hits the 80% performance cliff.
Transform facility storage into a profit center by automatically attributing ZFS dataset capacities to client projects for billing ($50–$150/TB/mo). Meanwhile, our low-level collector interrogates drives strictly with -n standby, ensuring nearline cold archive platters never wake up needlessly during polling.
Generic IT tools treat post arrays like database clusters. And custom cron scripts wake sleeping platters 50 times a day while remaining blind to block queue stalls.
-n standby to preserve sleeping disks without waking platters.Auditor-approved read-only container architecture designed to pass MPA & Trusted Partner Network (TPN) zero-trust security audits without touching project media bins.
docker run -d --name pillar-agent \ --restart unless-stopped \ --read-only \ --cap-drop=ALL \ --cap-add=SYS_RAWIO \ --tmpfs /tmp:rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=64m \ -v /dev:/dev:ro \ -v /proc/diskstats:/proc/diskstats:ro \ -v /sys/block:/sys/block:ro \ -v /sys/class/block:/sys/class/block:ro \ -v /sys/class/enclosure:/sys/class/enclosure:ro \ -v pillar-agent-data:/etc/pillar \ -e PILLAR_API_KEY=<YOUR_STUDIO_API_KEY> \ ghcr.io/pillarinteractive/pillar-agent:latest
In post-production, expanding from 100TB to 300TB happens because of 6K/8K RAW ingest—not because your team tripled. Zero per-terabyte penalties. Zero per-drive fees. Zero surprise metric overages.
Full predictive telemetry and client storage chargeback suite with 14 days zero-risk evaluation ($0 upfront, zero credit card). Includes direct 1-on-1 Slack onboarding with Mark (Founder) for host pairing and scrub tuning. Client storage invoicing ($50–$150/TB/mo) makes Pillar an immediate net-positive revenue center.
For multi-suite post houses & boutique finishing facilities
Billed monthly • Up to 3 storage heads included
-n standby safe)For high-throughput facilities, broadcast groups & studio campuses
Billed monthly • Up to 10 storage heads included
Scale to any number of TrueNAS, Unraid, or 45Drives heads across your facility for just +$99/month per additional host. Your terabytes and disks remain completely unlimited on every tier.
/dev/sd*, /dev/nvme*n*)./proc/diskstats and /sys/block. On Unraid, paste the 1-line Docker command into the web terminal or use the Unraid Community Apps container template. For step-by-step guides, systemd unit files, and persistent init scripts, see our Platform Deployment Guides.docker stop pillar-agent && docker rm pillar-agent. Because Pillar runs inside a strictly read-only container without host root filesystem hooks or cron modifications, zero residual files or background daemons remain on your server. See Troubleshooting & Lifecycle for de-provisioning details.--read-only, dropped capabilities (--cap-drop=ALL), and strictly read-only volume bindings. Pillar will never issue an unsolicited write command, kill an active process, pause a scrub autonomously, or touch your pool configuration. Your storage administrators remain 100% in control. Read our Security & Network Whitepaper for complete container audit specifications.Eliminate dropped frames in client reviews and uncoordinated rebuilds. Start your 14-day free pilot with zero credit card required.