Introducing the All-New S2A6620

An advanced, cost-effective storage appliance to deliver true enterprise-level data services

The S2A6620 leverages innovative capabilities from the award winning performance and reliability of the S2A product family. This appliance delivers the highest quality data services and eliminates the need for multiple systems, minimizing floor space, power consumption, complexity and management.

Why choose the S2A6620?

Leverages proven S2A technology in a smaller building block

Superior IOPS & bandwidth performance

Fault tolerance and redundancy everywhere

Advanced data protection features

Dense, reliable, scalable, easy-to-manage and cost- effective

Where should I deploy the S2A6620? Ideal for CGI Animation Rendering Houses, where cost-effective, compact IOPs machines are in high demand DAS or SAN (NAS coming soon) From 2 – 120TB E-mail, OLTP, database, Internet services, and more	IOPS Applications Metadata Storage Database Data Warehouse Email CGI Animation Rendering Remote Office Backup	S2A 6620 Technical Highlights Up to 30,000 IOPS (to disk) 4 x Active/Active Host Ports: FC4, FC8 Scales to Support 120 Hard Drives in 8U Up to 2.0 GB/s Performance Intermix SAS + SATA for Storage Tiering Up to 11 Systems (660 TB) per Rack RAID 5 and RAID 6 Options Journaled Fast Drive Rebuild Active/Active Storage Managers with Failover Full SATAssure Data Protection

Single System: Active/Active Storage Managers	Single System + Expansion: Active/Active Storage Managers & One Expansion Unit	Multiple Systems: 45U Rack = 5 Pairs of: Active/Active Storage Managers & Expansion Units
1 x 4U S2A6620 - Controller Module w/ 60 Drive Slots Manages up to 60 Drives 45U Rack Capacity: 11 Systems	1 x 4U S2A6620 Controller Module w/ 60 Drive Slots 1x4U StorageScaler 6000 Expansion Enclosure w/ 60 Additional Drive Slots Manages up to 120 Drives 45U Rack Capacity: 5 Pairs	5 x 4U S2A6620 Controller Module w/ 60 Drive Slots 5x4U StorageScaler 6000 Expansion Enclosure w/ 60 Additional Drive Slots Manages up to 600 Drives 45U Rack Capacity: 5 Pairs

	Industry leading density houses up to 60 drives in a single 4U appliance which easily scales up to 120 drives with an additional expansion units. Intermix high-performance SAS and high-capacity SATA drives in the same enclosure and realize tiered storage cost savings.
	Advantages Consolidate storage into a single easy-to-manage appliance Minimize floor space Reduce energy bills Put data on the appropriate media type to balance cost and performance

Data Availability

Dual active-active storage managers
Active-active failover / failback
Redundant, hot swappable power supplies
Hot swappable components (storage managers, drives and drive controller cards) ensure system uptime
Optional hot spares replace failed drives automatically

Active-active failover and extreme IOPS and bandwidth performance provide the enterprise reliability and quality of service your applications demand.. Battery backed cache is provided to eliminate the need for a costly, external UPS. Both RAID 5 and RAID 6 data protection are supported.

Advantages

Superior reliability and uptime

Extremely low maintenance

Unique, field-proven features, such as SATAssure™, Partial Rebuild and Hot Spares, increase data reliability and availability. Hot swappable and redundant components are utilized to allow for quick upgrades and high quality of service. User friendly management tools simplify storage administration.

Data Reliability

RAID 5 and optional RAID 6 Dual Parity Protection
Redundancy groups configurable to 8+1 (RAID 5) and 8+2 (RAID 6)
SATAssure full-time data integrity checking
Detects and repairs SATA silent data corruption
Partial Rebuild capability
Battery Backed Cache

Advantages

Maintains data protection even during drive rebuilds

Uses cost effective, high-capacity SATA drives with NO compromise of data reliability

Protects against accidental/incorrect drive removals

Tolerant of power disruptions