Sans Digital Elitestor With Redundant Controller SAS Expander

Sans Digital, Inc. announced a 3U and 4U high density, redundant controller SAS Expander storage in Elitestor series.

Elitestor ES328X6R and ES445X6R is a 3U 2- bay and 4U 45-bay SAS expander storage with front and back tray loading design for maximize rackspace. Equipped with dual SAS expander controller, support SAS or SATA drives, 80PLUS power supply and SES storage management, They are buildings block for storage infrastructures.

They support SATA/SAS SSD and HDDs and include standard features such as dual SAS channel, dual expansion mini-SAS slot and SGPIO support that enable the HBA controller to access real-time information regarding the enclosure real time status, including each of the HDDs installed in the unit. The built-in SAS expansion port enables the system to expand HDD drives by daisy-chained together multiple unit together. Front and back load design with 8TB HDDs support, they are capable with up to 360TB storage in 4U form factor, or 224TB in 3U form factor, over 80% storage increase compare to traditional front load only design.

Optional bundled with 12G RAID controller card
The bundled options of 12Gb RAID controller card is based on PCIe 3.0×8, with dedicated 1.2 dual core RAID processor and DDR-3 ECC 1833 2GB memory. Complex RAID calculation is offload to the RAID controller to provide performance. Supported in Windows, Mac and Linux, along with virtual platform of Hyper-V and VMware, the complete 12Gb end to end solution can fit performance hungry IT application or video production environment.

“With today ‘save everything’ approach on storage, storage systems are very important to be space efficient,” said by Stanley Chan, director of business development, Sans Digital. “ES328X6R and ES445X6R are design to fit into data center applications, including big data and hadoop system with high capacity storage requirements.“

Elitestor ES328X6R and ES445X6R are available with 3-year limited warranty.