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  • Sustained throughput up to 3GB/s reads and writes
  • Maintain Quality of Service for real-time data
  • Achieve DAS, NAS, SAN connectivity on a common storage pool

 

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S2A Performance Optimized Storage System
Ultra-low latency; sustained quality of performance; optimized performance/footprint. S2A Fibre Channel-based systems further enhance performance to store and retrieve data at leading performance rates.

Capable of storing and retrieving data at the high speeds and maintaining quality of performance to support priority applications, the S2A Performance Optimized Storage System is the platform of choice for storage managers.

System Highlights

  • Up to 448TB raw capacity
  • Up to 3 GB/s sustained read AND write performance
  • Low Latency Fibre Channel Disk Storage
  • Real-Time performance provides optimized QoS
  • NAS, SAN, Direct Attach - or any combined usage
  • Modular, redundant, hot swap-able components
  • Low power consumption and space optimization

 


Optimized For

Industry

Application

  • Financial

Market Data Distribution, Trading, Analytics

  • Manufacturing

Product Development Simulation, ASIC Design

  • Media

Broadcast, Post-production, DI, MAM

 

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S2A9550 Performance Optimized Storage System

Simplified scaling, configuration, and consolidation.

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Sample Configuration:

10 x 16-Bay Drive Enclosures

64TB in 34U

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

  • 3GB/s in 19U
  • 19U: 32TB raw
  • 34U: 64TB raw
  • 64U: 128TB raw

DirectRAID Quality of 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 5-30 disk drive enclosures
  • Add drives and enclosures on-line
  • Grow incrementally to 480 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 - very beneficial with high performance clusters.  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: Virtualized storage pools with PowerLUNs aggregate your storage pool and takes your application performance and capacity to extremely high levels.

Active-Active 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.

  
  

 

S2A9550 Appliance Detailed Specifications

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S2A9550 Appliance

Performance

DirectRAID 3.0GB/s
Read AND Write – Full Duplex

Performance Protection

Full-Bandwidth in
Degraded Mode Operation

 


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