Sans Digital, a leading provider of high performance storage subsystems, is proud to announce that its full line of 6G SAS Expansion JBOD storage bundled with a high performance RAID card rackmount systems, have now increased its capacity and performance by supporting the new Western Digital 4TB SAS (WD4001FYYG) and 4TB SATA (0F14683) hard drives. The AccuSTOR AS212X6SHP (2U, 12-Bay, Upgradeable Redundant Controller), AS316X6SHP (3U, 16-bay, Upgradeable Redundant Controller), and the EliteSTOR ES316X6+BSHP (3U, 16-Bay, Single PSU), ES316X6+BHP (3U, 16-bay) ES424X6S+BHP (4U, 24-bay, Single PSU), ES424X6+BHP (4U, 24-bay, Single PSU), all come bundled with a high-performance SAS RAID card, are now fully compatible with the latest Western Digital 7200RPM 6G 4TB SATA and 6G 4TB SAS hard drives allowing for maximum capacity and performance ever achieved in a 3U and 4U rack mountable SAS chassis.
The 6G SAS technology was developed to address the increasing demand for better data transfer speeds in order to handle the new IO performance requirement needed for information technology, virtual machines, and video editing applications. The previous generation’s 3Gbps SAS Expander performance is limited to 1200MB/s and generates approximately 700MB/s in RAID 6 environment. The introduction of 6G RAID controller card such as ARC1882X doubled the bandwidth (2400MB/s) and performance to 1800MB/s and peaks of greater than 2000MB/s based in our real world benchmark results.
In addition to the outstanding performance, the AccuSTOR AS212X6SHP, AS316X6SHP, and the EliteSTOR ES316X6+BSHP, ES316X6+BHP, ES424X6S+BHP, ES424X6+BHP, allow users to daisy-chain multiple units together, supporting up to a maximum of 120 hard drives or 480TB raw capacity using the new Western Digital 4TB hard drives. Furthermore, the bundled high performance duo-core RAID chipset 1GB DDR3 controller (HA-ARC-1882X) has the ability to access real-time information and status updates directly from the enclosure and the hard drives allowing for continuous monitoring and feedback. Using only a single SFF-8088 SAS cable, the ES316X6+BHP is capable of providing up to 64TB of raw storage capacity in a single enclosure. When a RAID-6 is implemented, the ES316X6+BHP allows up to two hard drive failures without data loss at speeds of over 1700MB/s using 16x Western Digital 4TB SAS 6G 7200RPM hard drives (WD4001FYYG). All Sans Digital AccuSTOR and EliteSTOR SAS enclosures are fast, reliable, affordable, and yet simple to use which in turn provides the user a maximum return on investment under an inflexible IT budget.
“The comprehensive full line of AccuSTOR and EliteSTOR 6G SAS Expander rackmount models combine high performance, quality and scalability at a reasonable and very price competitive price point for our customers.” said Stanley Chan, Director of Business Development of Sans Digital. “Now with the support of Western Digital’s 6G 4TB SATA and high performance 6G SAS hard drives, the AccuSTOR and EliteSTOR are the most viable choices in comparison to other products in its class.
