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  • RAID 6  with zero performance penalty
  • Rebuild drives without impacting performance
  • Deploy large SATA storage pools with confidence

 

 Capacity

Resolve scale-out costs with nearly a petabyte of storage in two racks


capacity-side.pngLeading Scalability & Density

  • Up to 960TB raw capacity
  • High-density packaging delivers 960TB in two racks; 80.7TB/ft2

Uncompromised Performance

  • Up to 3 GB/s sustained read AND write performance
  • DirectRAID 6 with no performance loss
  • Full-speed access, no degraded mode

Enterprise Data Integrity

  • High-Speed RAID 6 protects against double-disk failures
  • Real-Time SATA write and read parity calculation

Cost Effective, High Capacity,  SATA Bulk Storage

  • SATAssure data protection makes SATA a cost-effective enterprise alternative
  • NAS, SAN, Direct Attach - or any combined usage
  • Modular, redundant, hot swap-able components
  • Low power consumption and space optimization

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High-Density Drive Packaging

 

High Density

 

SAF high-density drive enclosures accommodate 48, 1TB SATA drives in 4U of rack space.

Fully populated S2A Storage Systems provide nearly 1Petabyte of SATA-based capacity within 2 data center racks.


Optimized For

Industry

  • All
  • All
  • All
  • All
  • Energy
  • Government/HPC
  • Internet

Application

Archive: Active-Archive
Backup: Disk-Disk, VTL
Disaster Recovery
Network Attached Storage
Seismic Data Processing
Scientific Computing
Web2.0 Content Storage & Distribution

 

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S2A9550 Capacity Optimized Storage System

Simplified scaling, configuration, and consolidation.

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Sample Configuration:

10 x 48-Bay Drive Enclosures

480TB in 44U

Robust Data Availability

Optimized Space, Power, Cooling

 

Full System Fault-Tolerance

  • S2A Appliance is fully redundant
  • Active-Active host port access
  • Active-Active S2A appliance failover
  • Withstands up to two enclosure losses
  • DirectRAID 6 double-disk failure protection
  • High-speed partial drive rebuilding
  • Withstands disk channel failure

 

Low Per-GB/s Power Consumption


  • Half rack (24U): 240TB
  • Single rack (44U): 480TB 
  •    Dual rack (84U): 960TB
  •    Low Per-TB Power Consumption 

Performance

Designed for Growth

 

Maintain Real-Time Performance During:

  • Degraded drive behavior
  • Loss of two drives per parity group
  • Loss of two full drive enclosures
  • Multiple drive failures, resets
  • Up to 4 concurrent drive rebuilds
  • Any drive channel failure
  • Drive check, error, or failure conditions

 

Scalable, Modular Configuration

  • Simple cabling
  • Scale 5-20 disk drive enclosures
  • Add drives and enclosures on-line
  • Grow incrementally to 960 disk drives

S2A Data Protection and Management Components

DirectOS
The S2A9550 is a patented, intelligent data management appliance built with a powerful parallel, hardware-accelerated storage engine engineered to deliver high-speed, real-time data delivery and protection. At the core of the S2A Appliance is the DirectOS operating system, which handles the many complex storage management functions within the S2A system, including:

S2A Reliability, Serviceability & Availability
(S2A RAS)

SATAssure: Extends SATA drives’ native resiliency, to enhance data integrity, availability and reliability to meet enterprise expectations without compromising performance or ROI.
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S2A Rebuild Journaling:  Dramatically reduces rebuild times compared to standard methods, especially important with SATA drives given their large capacities.

DirectMonitor: Facilitates proactive support of our systems, providing real-time monitoring and event notification. DirectMonitor enables our storage experts to react to issues without requiring customer initiative.

S2A Performance

DirectRAID: Designed with intelligent algorithms, DirectRAID leverages the system’s architecture to completely streamline and parallelize the data path. This results in high-speed, real-time data transfers and on-the-fly 8+1 and 8+2 parity calculations. Learn More ->

Real-Time Mode: S2A’s real-time parity engine to provide data to the host computer even when portions of it are missing due to a slow disk drive.

S2A Storage Virtualization

PowerLUN: Virtualize a storage pool with PowerLUNs which aggregates your storage pool and takes application performance and capacity to extremely high levels.

Active-Archive Host Ports: Reduce host striping and switching by configuring full access to the storage pool from any host port, or restrict host access with policy-based security.