RAIDFLEX 8000: Fastest Storage Yet
The RAIDFLEX 8000 range of storage systems are high-feature and high-performance mid-capacity product for those companies on a small to medium sized IT budget. With this in mind it is supplieded as an all inclusive out of the box, turnkey solution. As businesses continue to grow, administrators have the flexibility to add premium features to support data utilisation and protection requirements such as Storage Partitioning, Volume Snapshot and Volume Copy.
A product to fill this market gap has been eagerly awaited by many people with SANs and streaming applications such as surveillance or HD video. It is also anticipated that the broadcasting industry and others with large database archive requirements will be particularly impressed with the speed, price and security offered by the RAIDFLEX 8000.
Active Network Systems has consistently provided reliable leading edge storage solutions, popular across a range of markets and applications, and the RAIDFLEX 8000 is the latest in this range, featuring the next generation LSI controllers (Single or Dual Fibre Chanel, SAS or iSCSI) with a SAS backplane which offers a storage capacity of 12 Terabytes. It is very fast (900MB/s sustained transfer rate from media) and being modularly scalable it can grow with the user’s needs to a sizable 48 Terabytes.
It is already attracting a lot of interest from such diverse markets as the University of Cambridge, a European national electricity board and a national museum. This is hardly surprising as it is around 30% cheaper than the nearest comparable offerings from the larger brands.
Product Features
- Up to 12 Terabyte (SATA) per chassis
- Up to 4.8 Terabyte (SAS) per chassis
- Support for RAID level 0, 1, 1+0, 3, 5, 50, 6, 60
- Fibre Channel, SAS or iSCSI interface with SAS port 3GB technology
- Solution of choice for 2-node cluster topologies providing high-availability and redundancy
- Simple to implement and manage with intuitive easy-to-use interface
- “Start small, grow big” scalability with 3Gb/s JBOD SAS expansion supporting up to a total of 48 drives.
