42 HDDs on 4U RAID-6 by Eurostor

The amount of data being produced in today’s applications like video
surveillance still grows faster than the capacity of single disk
drives. Therefore the storage systems needed grow. European IT Storage Ltd. answers this situation with a new model in its ES-6600
RAID 6 series. In these new enclosures 42 disk drives can be attached
to a single controller, another 42 with a SAS expansion box. The disks
can be inserted from above instead of from the front. As the system can
be moved out of the rack like a server, disks can still be replaced or
inserted during operation. But the space is used in a much more
efficient way – nearly doubling the number of disks in a 4U system.

The new ES-6600 RAID can be offered with SAS or 4 Gbit Fibre Channel interface.
The controller has 2 ports, SAS ports consisting of 4 x 3 Gbit in one
cable. Like in previous ES-6600 RAID systems, different RAID sets can
be defined in one system, and within the RAID sets again volumes with
different RAID level. This gives maximum flexibility when assigning the
storage space to different servers. RAID sets can be expanded at a
later time, also with disks of the expansion box. SAS disks (up to 600
GB) and SATA enterprise disks (up to 1 TB) can be mixed within the same
system, giving the right storage type to each specific application.

“Our customers need inexpensive but still reliable storage capacity, and often they need a lot of it”, says Franz Bochtler, President of EUROstor. “Today
we ship most of our RAID systems fully equipped with the biggest had
disks available for 24h usage. With the new 42 disk version of our RAID
systems we can offer this for a really good price: for less than 30
Euro Cent per GB using 1 TB disks.”

A ES-6600 RAID system, e.g. with 42 TB raw capacity on 42 x 1 TB Enterprise SATA disks and 2 SAS host interfaces costs €13,990.- incl. VAT (€11.756,30 without VAT).