Infortrend Drive-Side Enhancements Resolve System Bottlenecks and Double Capacity Expansion

Infortrend Technology, Inc. announced drive-side enhancements to its storage solutions including the support for 12Gb SAS interface on EonStor DS 3000U and an optional expansion board on EonStor GS family to double capacity expansion.

These improvements will help customers address performance and capacity requirements arising from data growth challenges businesses face today and tomorrow.

EonStor DS 3000U, the next generation of the EonStor DS 3000 series is available with the support for the 12Gb SAS interface on the drive side to meet the mainstream storage trend. Many of company’s storage solutions have also been added with 12Gb SAS support. This enables enterprise data centers to take advantage of the 12Gb/s speed, thereby eliminating system bottlenecks.

The company is also taking capacity scalability to a new level by offering an optional expansion board for its EonStor GS Family. Users can now choose to connect second set of expansion enclosures so the number of total JBOD connections can double, providing twice the capacity scalability. For example, EonStor GS 3000, previously supporting up to 445 drives via built-in expansion ports, can now connect with an extra set of expansion enclosures (420 drives) to enable total connectivity to 865 drives for all kinds of backup and archiving needs.

“In today’s rapidly changing business environment, enterprises constantly struggle with two issues with their storage systems – speed and capacity. This is why Infortrend is introducing these enhancements and will continue to incorporate forward-looking technologies in our storage solutions to help customers deal with evolving requirements now and in the future,” said Thomas Kao, senior director, product planning, Infortrend.