Qsan XCubeSAN XS5200 and XCubeDAS XD5300 Series

QSAN Technology, Inc. announced its XCubeSAN XS5200 series and XCubeDAS XD5300 series at upcoming Computex 2016.

XCubeSAN XS5200 front and rear

XCubeSAN is firm’s next generation SAN storage platform, featuring the Xeon D-1500 processors and the QLogic 2600 series Gen 5 16Gb FC quad-port controller.

XCubeDAS XD5300

XCubeDAS is company’s next generation DAS expansion enclosure product line which fully adopts native 12Gb SAS technology and it can serve as expansion enclosure of XCubeSAN while providing storage capacity to the servers.

“Both XCubeSAN and XCubeDAS are QSAN’s commitment and answers to its customers to offer fully-featured enterprise SAN and DAS storage systems to SMB businesses. XCubeSAN series is designed and optimized for I/O, scalability and reliability to accelerate enterprise mission-critical applications and enhance IT efficiency and agility,” said Gordon Hsu, director, product management.

The company worked with Intel Corp. and Qlogic Corp. to build the next generation storage platform. Thanks to integrating the silicon technologies from the two companies, XCubSAN XS5200 series can deliver up to 12,000MB/s read and 8,000MB/s write in throughput and over 1,500,000 IO/s to enhance enterprise I/O critical applications, media and entertainment, large-scale surveillance, HPC and virtualized datacenters.

“Data center customers are seeking new levels of density, integration and intelligence in their storage systems,” said Andrea Nelson, marketing director, storage, data center group, Intel. “The Intel Xeon processor D-1500 product family allows storage providers like QSAN to provide their customers with these important features and deliver greater efficiency and return on their investment.”

“QLogic Gen 5 FC technology addresses the growing bandwidth requirements of today’s highly virtualized data centers,” said Vikram Karvat, VP, products, marketing and planning, QLogic. “QLogic’s innovative multi-port isolation architecture provides maximum IO/s and low latency to support business-critical applications, scaling performance and delivering the ultimate in reliability.”

Both XCubeSAN and XCubeDAS products come with a range of form factors, including 4U 24-bay, 3U 16-bay, 2U-12bay, and 2.5″ high density 2U 26-bay. Latest Xeon Broadwell-DE CPU, DDR4 ECC memory, native 12Gb SAS, and dual host card design make XCubeSAN future-proof and can deliver performance to meet the demands of all kinds of enterprise applications. XCubeSAN is optimized for SSD drives to support auto tiering and SSD caching to enhance performance, increase efficiency with a lower TCO. Every new feature on XS5200 series is future-focused, performance and data security has been pushed to the limit to ensure to have an enterprise storage system. XS5200 series will feature SED drive support, iSCSI force field protection for mutant DDoS attack, and offer super capacitor module and M.2 flash module for memory protection.