JMR Electronics Launches First 4 Gb/s Fibre Host-Based SATA2/SAS Storage System At Storage Networking World In Orlando
JMR Electronics announced the release of the MARLIN storage product. The MARLIN offers customers the newest in technologies with a 4gb/s to the host and SATA/SAS to the drives in a 16-bay solution. JMR's newest design is a 3U, 16-drive system that can offer up to 8TB of capacity per shelf with SATA drives and 2.3TB with SAS drives. The MARLIN can be expanded to up to 80 Terabytes. This provides the ultimate in connectivity, performance and price.
With the MARLIN, JMR becomes the first independent RAID systems vendor to announce a Fibre Channel to SATA/SAS solution. The system supports a 4Gb/s fibre channel host interface and a 3 Gb/s disk drive connection. The system also offers native support for Snapshot, RAID 6, and the SMI-S open industry management standard.
"We realize that corporate IT departments are ready to move into 4Gb/s storage technology, especially when used with either the newest feature rich SATA 2 drives, or the new high speed SAS drives," said JMR President Josef Rabinovitz. "We have always been fast to market with solid feature rich storage solutions, and think MARLIN will excel in these new technologies." The new MARLIN product was showcased at the Storage Networking World show in Orlando at JMR's booth and will begin shipping in December.
JMR's MARLIN, supplies 16 SAS channels to which SAS, SATA II, or SATA I drives can be connected. For higher performance environments, the use of SAS disk drives provides maximum bandwidth and I/O for data intensive applications. Where cost is a primary issue or where the use of secondary storage for Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), near-line storage, Content Addressable Storage (CAS), or disk-to-disk back-up deployments are needed, the MARLIN supports the use of more cost effective SATA disk drives, dramatically lowering subsystem cost and TCO. The MARLIN also supports the intermixing of SAS and SATA disk drives within the same enclosure for unmatched configuration flexibility. With its standard 4x wide SAS expansion port, the MARLIN can quickly and inexpensively be expanded with additional enclosures and subsystem configurations supporting hundreds of disk drives.
"MARLIN offers several features designed to provide network administrators with exceptional management and flexibility," according to Tom Fabrizio, V.P. of Sales and Marketing. "The controller includes JMR's online RAID expansion tool suite. This allows an administrator to add drives to an existing array and re-stripe data across all drives without taking the array off-line. The controller also supports immediate RAID availability, which brings an array on-line in a matter of seconds, and features non-disruptive firmware downloading for the controller, enclosure management, and attached disk drives."
MARLIN integrates JMR RAID Manager™ software, a new Java-based enterprise RAID management software application that enables the RAID system to be configured, managed, and monitored. The easy-to-use JMR RAID Manager provides one of the industry's most comprehensive sets of Java-based RAID management tools including SMI-S support, remote event notification, error detection, enclosure management and monitoring through SES, and controller and disk drive hot plug and hot swap support.
By providing RAID 6 functionality, arrays created by the MARLIN can tolerate the failure of two disks in a RAID group and still deliver continuous data availability to the host. Using JMR's advanced firmware and hardware parity regeneration, data is protected even if two disks in a RAID group fail. Through the use of RAID 6, and the hierarchical RAID implementation of RAID 60, the MARLIN provides maximum data reliability and availability.
MARLIN features:
- Dual 4Gb/s Fibre Host Connectivity
- 16 Hot Swap SATA2 or SAS Drives
- Standard with up to 8TB of Storage Per 3U Enclosure
- Expandable to multiple terabytes by adding additional units
- Single Raid Controller with Dual Active Active due Q1
- Backwards compatible to 2Gb/s Fibre to host and SATA 1
- Support for RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 and 50
- Easy-to-Use, Complete Management Software
- Hot Swappable, Redundant Power Supplies, Fans and Drives
The MARLIN includes 3-year warranty, replacement parts and technical support as part of the standard configuration. In addition, through our dealer partners' 5x9 and 7x24 on-site options are available as well.
Availability
The MARLIN is available only through JMR's dealer partners. For one in your area, e-mail JMR at ussales@jmr.com.
About JMR Electronics
As one of the first manufacturers to develop a complete family of Fibre Channel and SATA storage solutions, JMR offers a wide array of scalable storage systems to handle both bandwidth- and I/O-intensive environments. The company's FORTRA family is an advanced, modular storage technology incorporating patented technologies with solutions spanning from 4-, 6-, 8- 10- and 15-bay desktop JBODs to 15- and 16-bay Fibre-to-Fibre and SATA RAID solutions. JMR also manufactures the widest selection of SCSI solutions, as well as custom OEM products in its USA-based ISO 9001:2000 facilities. JMR was also the first to launch a full SATA Raid solution for the Back-up to Disk and Secondary storage markets. Additional information on JMR and its product offerings can be found at www.jmr.com.