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 Enterprise Class Storage Networking System with Full Fibre Channel and SATA Disk Drive Support
The S2A8000 is part of the flagship Silicon Storage Appliance family designed to make it easy for the scientific, supercomputing and rich media communities to deploy and scale 2Gb/s Fibre Channel storage area network infrastructures. Including directRAID, a patent protected Parallel access Architecture, Centralized Caching, and Solid-State Disk functionality, the S2A8000 provides the lowest Total Cost of Ownership for any high-performance storage environment.
Generic RAID storage devices have been designed for the transactional markets and fall short when installed in high-throughput distributed computing, the S2A8000 has been specifically designed and engineered to serve the stringent throughput, scalability and low latency requirements of HPC, Rich Media and Oil and Gas environments.
Performance + Scalability + Manageability = Simplicity
Simplicity drives down the Total Cost of Ownership. The TCO of any computing infrastructure is directly affected by the quantity of devices and the associated management resources needed to perform the job - and keep it all up and running. Silicon Storage Appliances’ incredible performance, scalability and manageability allow you to do more with fewer components, resulting in higher reliability, less system’s administration, and far greater ease-of-use. In fact, it is not unusual for a single systems administrator to manage from a few Terabytes to well over a hundred Terabytes using Silicon Storage Appliances.
Performance - The S2A8000 is the first intelligent storage controller device that in real-life applications truly exceeds the 1 GigaByte/second (Not Gigabits!) sustained throughput barrier. In both Reads and even more impressively, Writes. While other storage devices claim theoretical throughput numbers, only the S2A8000 truly delivers close to 1.2-1.4 GigaByte/second throughput 24x7 in actual data intensive application environments using Fibre Channel Disks. In addition, the S2A8000’s advanced drive management techniques provides the fastest and most scalable Serial ATA (SATA) disks storage implementations available.
Scalability - Its capability to scale to and manage from a handful to over 1,000 disk drives, up to 336TB of total capacity using 300GB disk drives, provides a great platform for Storage Consolidation and Virtualization. Adding capacity is achieved online without disruption just by adding disks and disks enclosures when required.
Manageability - The Silicon Storage Appliances’ built-in virtualization, any to any data-access architecture, performance monitoring and optimization, load-balancing, as well as intuitive interface capabilities make the Appliances truly easy to deploy, re-configure, monitor and troubleshoot.
Fault Tolerance - On top of the usual reliability features you have come to expect (RAID protection, controller failover, hot swappable drives, power supplies and fans), the S2A8000 also protects your content with RAIDed cache, disk chassis redundancy without downtime or loss of access, and "on-the-fly" Parity checking for both Writes AND Reads (Very helpful with SATA disks to limit disk corruption, and avoid drive failures events exhibited by other SATA Raid devices).
S2A8000 Features:
- Single 2U S2A8000 with Four 2Gb/s Ports or Dual 4U with Eight 2Gb/s Ports
- 20 Back end Fibre Channel Loops supporting Fibre and/or SATA disks
- Up to 1120 Disk Drives, 512 Direct Host logins, and 8192 LUNs supported
- 5TB to 336TB with 300GB Fibre Channel or SATA disks
- Sustained Performance well over 1Gbyte/s, up to 1.6 GByte/s theoretical bandwidth
- Full Fibre-Channel Duplex Performance on every port
- Real time Any to Any Virtualization
- No performance penalties in degraded mode operation,
- Very fast rebuild rate
- PowerLUN™ 1 Gbyte/sec+ individual LUNs without host-based striping
- Up to 20GB of Cache, LUN-in-Cache Solid State Disk functionality
- SNMP, GUI and Telnet support
- Standard directMirror™ multi-clone mirroring capability
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