Nexsan Drives Record Performance Benchmarks With Hitachi
Using the high-performance Hitachi Deskstar 7K250, Nexsan's new ATAboy2 with dual 2 Gbit Fibre Channel controllers achieves more than twice the data storage density of traditional enterprise configurations at about one-third the price. The ATAboy2 now reaches 344 megabytes per second sustained data throughput rates with Hitachi Deskstar drives a significant performance advantage for users working with data-streaming applications such as audio/video recording and editing, or accessing data from a remote server.
"Nexsan's ATAboy2 shattered previous benchmarks for performance with the introduction of Hitachi's Deskstar products," said Brendan Kinkade, Nexsan vice president of marketing. "With the increased speed built into our storage system incorporating dual controllers and these new drives, we continue to raise the bar on providing to our customers the high performance, high reliability and high capacity solutions they have come to expect from Nexsan. We expect that our volume of sales will continue to grow exponentially with each new product improvement."Nexsan's adoption of Hitachi drives for its ATAboy2 is attributed to the Deskstar 7K250's high data transfer rate, leading seek time of 8.5 ms and 8 MB buffer option for super-fast access to data. With capacity up to 250 GB and rotational speed of 7200 RPM, the Deskstar 7K250 extends Hitachi's long-standing tradition of ATA performance and capacity leadership.
"The Deskstar 7K250's high capacity and fast data access are ideally suited to meet the needs of ATA RAID and other data-intensive applications," said Bob Holleran, general manager, Desktop Business Unit, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. "We are pleased that Nexsan is using award-winning Hitachi Deskstar drives to help boost the performance of its ATAboy2 RAID systems and set new benchmark records."
About InfiniSAN ATAboy2
The InfiniSAN ATAboy2 series provides enterprise-class features and functionality in an advanced ATA disk-based solution than can scale from a correct-cost, entry-level solution to meet the demands of the most storage intensive mid-range and enterprise applications. Nexsan designed
enterprise-class reliability into the ATAboy2, utilizing redundancy, advanced ATA disk drives and the latest in RAID technology. The Nexsan designed GUI interface, NexSCAN, provides the latest in centralized management and monitoring features for all Nexsan subsystems.
Tele-Guard, Nexsan's phone home manager, offers operator selectable parameters to monitor all system conditions. Tele-Guard provides the vehicle to notify single or multiple system operators of not only component warnings, but also preemptive alerts.
InfiniSAN ATAboy2 ATA disk-based systems provide the maximum uptime operation and data protected environment available today.
About Nexsan Technologies
Nexsan Technologies, headquartered in Woodland Hills, Calif., is the leader in innovative and correct-cost storage solutions. The company creates and delivers award-winning, storage-centric hardware and application-based
solutions worldwide through one of the most diverse and established networks of professionals in the storage industry. Next-generation Nexsan storage products are designed for corporate, graphics, medical imaging, animation
and special effects, real time/event monitored/on-line/off-site storage, Internet delivered content, digital film and video, financial online transaction data, music and voice, video security, and document imaging.
For more information, please see the company's website at: www.nexsan.com.