Digi-Data SA-300 And SA-400 Storage Arrays
STORM RAID storage systems utilize specially designed disk enclosures to maximize performance, density, availability and scalability of the storage system. These enclosures are made specifically for the intense needs of STORM high performance arrays and include fully redundant, hot-swappable disk drives, Fibre Channel loop resiliency modules, power supplies and fan assemblies.
These 16 drive 3U enclosures offer a total capacity of 4.8TB per enclosure using 300GB Fibre Channel drives or 8TB per enclosure using 500GB Serial ATA drives. In a 38U high 19" rack fully populated with 12 enclosures, this translates to over 57.6TB Fibre Channel or 96TB SATA. Each drive can be locked individually for added security.
The 2 Gb Fibre Channel interfaces maximize the available transfer rate to the disk drives. In addition, these enclosures can be configured with either a single (4 port) or dual (4/8 port) LRC for increased flexibility in drive configurations and expandability. Up to 8 enclosures can be daisy-chained together to maximize each Fibre channel at 125 drives.
STORM Enclosure Highlights:
- Supports Fibre Channel and Serial ATA drives
- FC-AL Single or Dual Loop 1Gb/2 Gb, with Small Form Factor
- Pluggable (SFP) interfaces providing LC Optical
- Fibre Channel loops are configurable to support 1 loop of 16 drives, 2 loops of 8 drives, or 4 loops of 4 drives
- 16 drives per enclosure
- Single or Dual LRC for added flexibility in drive configurations and expandability
- Fully redundant, hot-swappable disk drives, Fibre Channel loop resiliency modules, power supplies and fan assemblies