Addonics: 4U Chassis for Multi-Terabyte Magnetic or Optical Disk Storage Solution

Addonics Technologies announced its Storage Rack, a 4U rack mount storage chassis that
is designed to fit into a standard computer rack for creating custom
storage solutions with multi-terabyte capacity for video storage, video
editing, data archiving, storage farms, or uninterruptible and
redundant storage.

Designed to grow an organization’s enterprise storage capacity without
making any individual component obsolete, the Addonics Storage Rack
offers more configuration options than expensive proprietary storage
solutions at a much lower cost per gigabyte. The Storage Rack can also
be easily reconfigured, modified or upgraded at any time to meet an
organization’s new application needs without investing in new storage
devices or new storage enclosures.

Multi-Terabyte Storage
The Addonics Storage Rack comes with nine standard 5 ¼-inch drive bays.
It can be initially configured with just a single drive and expanded to
as many as nine standard height optical devices or nine 3.5-inch hard
drives. When combined with the Addonics optional 3.5-inch Disk Array or
2.5-inch Disk Array, up to 15 3.5-inch hard drives or 36 2.5-inch hard
drives can be installed inside the Storage Rack. One Addonics Storage
Rack supports up to 15 terabytes of storage using the largest 1 TB
3.5-inch hard drive or almost 11 terabytes of storage using the 300 GB
2.5-inch hard drive. Users can mix and match optical drives with hard
drives (with or without hardware encryption) inside the same Storage
Rack.

Multiple Connectivity Options
Storage devices inside the Storage Rack can be connected to the system
via individual eSATA cables for maximum throughput or via multiple Port
Multipliers or Multilane connectors or with Addonics universal USIB
connector through the back panel of the Storage Rack. The USIB
connector enables individual storage devices to connect to the system
via the USB 2.0 or Firewire port with one optional Addonics USIB
interface cable. When combined with the wide range of Addonics
removable storage systems, IO converters and cables, IDE or SATA
storage devices from 1.8-inch to 3.5-inch form factors can all be mixed
into the same chassis. These devices can also be hot swapped in and out
of the Storage Rack like a tape cassette.

The Storage Rack is constructed with heavy gauge sheet metal with dual
4-inch high CFM cooling fans to ensure efficient cooling. Also included
is a built-in thermal management card that provides continuous
temperature monitoring and over-temperature alarm as well as
controlling the speed of cooling fan. An optional redundant power
supply is also available for mission critical applications.

When combined with various Addonics Mobile Racks, the Disk Array 5SA,
Disk Array 4SA, and Disk Array 3SA , 2.5" to 3.5" IDE converter and the
optional drive mounting brackets, the configuration possibilities for
the Storage Rack become almost endless.

All models of Storage Rack comes standard with nine power connections
for storage device with 4P or 15-pin SATA power connector, dual 90X90
mm cooling fan, intelligent thermal management card and installation
guide. The base unit Storage Rack (SR380S) with ATX power supply has a
MSRP of $329. A Storage Rack (SR300RHPM) that comes with redundant
power supply, and a Hardware Port Multiplier installed (SR300RHPM)
would have a MSRP of $769.

Addonics Technologies Inc.