Storage and Backup: SATA, SAS and Fibre RAID Arrays

In the last eight years there has been a tremendous growth in the need to purchase storage; this is true for every business and industry.

For some time there were only two technologies used in RAID arrays - Fibre and SCSI. NexSAN Technologies was the first ton introduce an array named the "ATABoy" that utilized PATA Drives. It took less than two years for others to accept this as an option for secondary storage and soon this morphed to the newer SATA drives. In the last year or so, SCSI drives are slowly been replaced by the newer SAS drives. In another post I will discuss the drives in great depth.

Sunstar Company does work with a number of vendors that we believe off terrific solutions encompassing all drive technologies and supporting both Fibre and iSCSI connectivity.

Some of the manufacturers that we offer to our clients are; NexSAN Technologies, iQstor, StoreVault (a NetApp Co.), IBM Storage, Arena Products , EqualLogic, Reldata, OnStor and Overland Storage.

Each have their strength in specific markets. Please fee free to contact us and we can point out the solutions that we feel will best fit your needs.

Specifically:
NexSAN offers:

SATABoy - Limited to 14 SATA Drives - Single or Dual Controller - Up to 4 Fibre & 4 iSCSI ports
SASBoy - Limited to 14 SAS Drives - Single or Dual Controller - Up to 4 Fibre & 4 iSCSI ports
SATABeast - Limited to 42 SATA Drives - Single or Dual Controller - Up to 4 Fibre & 4 iSCSI ports
SATABeastXi - Limited to 14 SATA Drives - Single or Dual Controller - Up to 4 Fibre & 4 iSCSI ports (For Mac - Apple)
DATABeast - Fully configured SAN in a rack with multiple of any of the above solutions

iQstor offers:

iQ2280 - 15 SATA Drives - Single or Dual Controller - Up to 4 Fibre ports - Up to 240 drives (Fibre or SATA), using expansion chassis
iQ2880 - 15 Fibre Drives - Single or Dual Controller - Up to 4 Fibre ports - Up to 240 drives (Fibre or SATA), using expansion chassis
iQ2850 - 15 Fibre or SATA Drives - Single or Dual Controller - Up to 4 iSCSI ports - Up to 240 drives (Fibre or SATA), using expansion chassis

StoreVault offers: