42TB in a single chassis

Sunstar Company is proud to introduce to you the NexSAN SATABeast. No just like any other SAN, the SATABeast will save you money.

Interested in going green, save power.

The SATABeast employs Nexsan's revolutionary AutoMAID™ energy saving technology. AutoMAID transparently places SATABeast disk drives in an idle state reducing power consumption and operational costs. AutoMAID delivers the cost-saving benefits of MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks) without the limitations of slow access times and special host software. Nexsan's AutoMAID is granular to an individual drive or RAID set and enables users to determine the level of access speed and energy savings desired. AutoMAID is the first MAID architecture that supports VTL (Virtual Tape Libraries), full file format D2D and standard RAID implementations.

NexSAN's award-winning Performance SATAT RAID controller architecture utilizes dual RAID engines on each SATABeast controller to provide extremely high throughput performance across 42 spindles. SATABeast's 42 high capacity drives can be segmented into multiple RAID sets or a single large storage pool. LUN Mapping allows users to easily configure the massive disk capacity for dozens of servers or one.

• Highest storage density in the industry - up to 42 TB in only 4U
• NexSAN's revolutionary AutoMAID™ energy saving technology greatly reduces power consumption and operating costs.
• Full Enterprise class performance and reliability
• Dual function Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity with wire-speed performance. Flexible, scalable and completely OS independent, SATABeast easily supports a broad range of storage infrastructures.
• High performance – over 700 MB/s sustained throughput
• Integrated Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity for flexible implementation
• Reduced energy consumption and costs through AutoMAID™ technology.
• All active components are redundant and individually hot-swappable
• Highest density per rack inch
• Completely OS independent. No special software drivers or server-based management applications required.
• Supports RAID 0, 1, 1+0, 4, 5 and 6 & supports multiple RAID sets and multiple volumes per set.
• Up to 2GB cache per controller and supports up to 32 LUNS per controller.
• Online SATABeast delivers access to data up to 500 times faster than tape libraries and 20x faster than other MAID systems.
• Embedded web-browsable GUI over 10/100/1000 port, supports email alerts and SNMP traps
• Horizontal midplane design promotes superior airflow and alleviates insertion stress points
• Anti-Accumulative Rotational Vibration design enables maximum drive reliability.
• WorldView™ - Provides ability to manage and configure multiple Nexsan units from a single GUI
• Warranty - three years
• Reliable - YES

Looking for more than 42TB, look at the DataBeast, in essence, multiple SATABeasts and more.

More spped, well the SASBeast (not confirmed) is not yet on the market, consider the NexSAN SASBoy, very similar to the 14 drive SATABoy , however SAS drives and very fast.

Interested, contact me at Sunstar. (800) 663.5523 or info@sunstarco.com

Cheers

Gavin

Fibre Attached Storage

Fibre attached SANs at this point in time are certainly the SAN of choice when the client has a need for fast storage. Sure we can consider iSCSI SANs, however if a database is involved and the client is look for the highest IOPS then we tend to point to a Fibre Attached SAN with fast drives.

Generally speaking databases are not that large so we tend to recommend utilizing either Fibre or SAS drives drives within the SAN.

Two manufacturers come to mind: NexSAN and iQstor. Two very different solutions; one supporting SAS and the other Fibre drives.

NexSAN SASBoy.

• High Performance SAS Storage (15K SAS)
• High transaction performance
• NexSAN's revolutionary AutoMAID™ energy saving technology greatly reduces power consumption and operating costs.
• High capacity – up to 4.2 TB in only 3U
• Dual function Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity
• Transaction speeds up to 50,000 IOPS from cache and 2,500 IOPS

iQstor iQ2880 :

• High Performance Fibre Storage (choice of 10K or 15K Fibre)
• Single or Dual RAID Controllers
• Full 4GB Fibre
• Capacity: Up to 240 drives, using expansion chassis
• Software solution sets - SnapShots, Replication, Volume Copy, Volume Manager Virtualization etc.

I will discuss each one of these RAID solutions in more detail in the following blogs.

Please contact at Sunstar Company, Inc if we can be of assistance.

info@sunstarco.com (800) 663-5523

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NexSAN SATABoy

NexSAN Technologies introduced that SATABoy some four years ago. Prior to the to the SATABoy they had a similar RAID array called the ATABoy. The ATABoy used Parallel ATA Drives whereas the SATABoy uses SATA II Drives.

14 Drive solution in a 3 U Formation with the option of single or dual controllers. Each controller has 2 x 4Gb Fibre Channel Ports and 2 x Ethernet GigE Ports.

Present maximum capacity with 1TB SATA Drives os 14TB.

The highly scalable SATABoy enables cost-effective storage of large amounts of information online, while its exceptional performance ensures faster response times for mission critical applications. SATABoy is equally capable of delivering high IOPS for transactional applications and sustaining maximum MB/s throughput for high bandwidth applications such as streaming media.

SATABoy offers the energy saving benefits of Nexsan's revolutionary AutoMAID™ technology. AutoMAID™ (Massive Array of Idle Disks) allows SATABoy to place its disk drives into an idle state to conserve energy yet provide near-instantaneous access to data. This powerful combination of high performance with energy saving capabilities enables users to maximize the total return on their storage hardware investment. offers the energy saving benefits of Nexsan's revolutionary AutoMAID™ technology.

Standard warranty os 3 years with uplifts available.

SATABoy Features:
High performance RAID solution built around the latest high-capacity SATA disk drives.
All mission critical components, including RAID controllers, are hot swappable and completely redundant.
NexScan™, platform independent Web enabled GUI, provides simple system configuration, event and component monitoring from any standard web browser.
Multi-box capable - NexScan enables remote management and configuration of multiple arrays from a single GUI.
Up to 32 LUNS per controller
Dynamic spare pooling and dedicated spares; array verification
Dependable hot swapping of high capacity drives with the flexibility to support even higher capacities with Nexsan's proprietary RAID engine with soft-reconfigurable FPGAs.
Failsafe 24/7 operation for uninterrupted business continuity.
Three Year Warranty - Advance Exchange, 24X7 Technical Support.
High capacity / High-density - SATABoy features 14 drives in only 3u of rack space.
Arrays can be configured for RAID levels 0, 1, 1+0, 4, 5 and 6
OS independent - No special software drivers required to connect to any host system.
Integrated Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity for flexible implementation

Sunstar Company has been installing the NexSAN product line from inseption.
Clearly the NexSAN SATABoy is a leader in the field and can be incorporated in NexSAN's newest storage solution the DATABeast.

Similar to that of the NexSAN SATABeast, other than 14 drives as opposed to 42.

Please do contact us if you have any questions.
800.663.5523 info@sunstarco.com
Sunstar Company, Inc