Rechercher
Contactez-nous Suivez-nous sur Twitter En francais English Language
 

Freely subscribe to our NEWSLETTER

Newsletter FR

Newsletter EN

Vulnérabilités

Unsubscribe

Infortrend introduces 6GB/S SAS drive connectivity storage solution

April 2010 by Marc Jacob

Infortrend announced the availability of its new EonStor DS 8Gb/s FC to 6Gb/s SAS series. With hard disk drive vendors no longer shipping 3Gb/s SAS drives, 6Gb/s SAS drives are quickly becoming the new standard hence the newest addition to Infortrend’s EonStor DS product line offers the latest in SAS drive connectivity, providing SMB users with even more options for affordable storage solutions in high-availability environments.

Introduced earlier this year, the first EonStor DS models come with host connectivity choices of 8Gb/s Fibre Channel (FC), 4Gb/s FC and 1GbE iSCSI. With these systems, SMB users can easily deploy FC SAN or IP SAN for storage consolidation at affordable price points. They can also intermix 3Gb/s SAS and SATA drives to cost-effectively meet diverse data demands with a tiered storage approach. Powered by Infortrend’s latest RAID engine, the EonStor DS systems deliver outstanding throughput to offer superior price/performance and significantly improve SAN application productivity.

The addition of the new 8Gb/s FC to 6Gb/s SAS series offers users more drive options and expands the product family to include the latest SAS protocol standard. By integrating the latest SAS technology, Infortrend offers users the ability to optimise transfer rates to support today’s extremely bandwidth-hungry applications, including server virtualisation, backup and video streaming. In addition, the new technology helps users improve overall IT efficiency; its enhanced diagnostic capability of error counters and status monitors supports faster and more accurate troubleshooting. Unlike their 3Gb/s SAS counterparts, 6Gb/s SAS expanders can discover the hard disks they are attached to without the help of the SAS controller. This enables faster system initialisations and detection of topology changes. 6Gb/s SAS is also backward compatible, meaning that users’ current investments on 3Gb/s SAS drives can still be leveraged in the new EonStor DS 8Gb/s FC to 6Gb/s SAS systems.

The first models from the EonStor DS 8Gb/s FC to 6Gb/s SAS series will be available in May through Infortrend’s worldwide channel partners.


See previous articles

    

See next articles


Your podcast Here

New, you can have your Podcast here. Contact us for more information ask:
Marc Brami
Phone: +33 1 40 92 05 55
Mail: ipsimp@free.fr

All new podcasts