NexSAN Technologies

Perhaps you are looking to purchase a significant capacity of storage? Now with the 1TB SATA drives and larger Fibre and SAS and we know that larger capacity units are on the horizon what size SAN storage should you purchase?

I would like to introduce you to NexSAN Technologies, a company that we at Sunstar Company, Inc have had a relationship with for many years. In terms of basic storage they have in essence a 3U chassis supporting 14 drives and a 4U chassis supporting 42 drives.

The NexSAN SATABoy (up to 14TB in a single 3U chassis, with SATA Drives) is also available as the SASBoy (up to 4.2TB in a single 3U chassis with SAS Drives.)

Then there is the NexSAN SATABeast (up to 42TB in a single 4U chassis supporting SATA Drives) and the NexSAN SATABeast Xi (up to 42TB in a single 4U chassis in a Mac environment with SATA Drives.)

If you are building a Fibre or iSCSI SAN the SATABoy, SASBoy, SATABeast and SATABeast Xi are a great fit. Each chassis supports a choice of single or dual controllers, and each controller supports 2 x 4GB Fibre ports and 2 x GigE ports. Active - Active Controllers and since NexSAN is the actual manufacturer of all the hardware and software they are always able to tweak the storage to fit your needs.

Let us not forget the Green Features of these solutions. In the last month I wrote a blog illustration some of the features incorporated into these NexSAN Storage Solutions:
Here is a short synopsis of it's capabilities:

• AutoMAID automatically reduces power consumption and heat generation on idle drives.
• Trade-off between response times and power savings are user configurable.
• AutoMAID behavior happens automatically and transparently to host – no software changes required
• AutoMAID is analogous to power saving modes on laptops
• Typical configuration settings: - 30% savings – after 5 minutes of idle time, drives are programmed to unload heads and slow down to 4000 RPM. Very fast recovery time.- 52% savings – after 5 minutes of idle time, drives are programmed to spin down. Recovery time on the order of 30 seconds.

NexSAN recently introduced a new solution known as the DATABeast, in essence a highly managed solution that can grow to several Petabytes in a single rack. This is a scalable SATA/SAS solution in a high density, low profile form factor and I will discuss this solution in a future blog.

I will discuss these solutions in depth in their own blogs in the near future. In the meanwhile, please do contact us for additional information and pricing.

800.663.5523 and info@sunstarco.com

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