Dot Hill Introduces RAID Solutions With SAS 450GB 15K HDDs

Dot Hill Systems Corp. introduced one of the industry’s first SAS RAID arrays with 450GB drives, the largest capacity SAS drives in the industry.

Dot Hill storage solutions with 450GB drives allow customers to increase valuable SAS storage capacity by up to 50 percent at new lower dollar-per-gigabyte pricing. The high capacity drives significantly improve performance for customers running database and online transaction processing applications.

Dot Hill is now offering this latest generation of high-performance 15K, 3.5-inch form factor drives for its Series 2000 and 5000 product lines. In addition, 450GB Fibre Channel drives will soon be available for the Dot Hill SANnet II FC family of arrays.

"Dot Hill’s ability to bring these drives to market so quickly is a testimonial to the versatility of their R/Evolution architecture," said Paul Hickingbotham, solutions manager, Hammer. "The 450GB of capacity gives us a real competitive edge with the ability to offer customers more than 48 terabytes of high performance data storage on 5730 midrange solutions."

"This company-first allows us to improve companies’ IT investments with a lower cost-per-gigabyte, and extend our SAS and Fibre Channel RAID lines with the latest disk drive technology," said Cooper Cowart, Dot Hill’s vice president of marketing. "Dot Hill’s ability to begin supporting the market so quickly for 450GB drives is a direct result of our R/Evolution architecture, which enables us to offer the latest innovations in storage and rapidly respond to our customers’ needs."

Dot Hill is taking orders for RAID solutions with the new 450GB drives now. Customers should expect availability in the third quarter of 2008.