Unifosa Debuts 16Gb FC Storage Systems

UNIFOSA CORP. launched the 16Gb FC storage product line, including 2U 12 bay, 2U 24 bay, 3U 16 bay, 4U 42 bay to 4U 64 bay high density series, which offers data protection, hardware redundancy and performance for versatile applications that request high availability.

4U 64 bay model

The EPICa 16Gb FC storage solution doubles the throughput and provides IO/s from 8Gb/s interface and that suits application and services.

There are totally 5 platforms and 10 models released:

• 2U 12 bay EP-2123S1/D1-FGS6 ,

• 2U 24 bay EP-2243S1/D1-FGS6 ,

• 3U 16 bay EP-3163S1/D1-FGS6 ,

• 4U 42 bay EP-4423S1/D1-FGS6 and

• high-density 4U 64 Bay EP-4643S1/D1-FGS6 . 

This product line is flexible and offers more choices for customers according to their capacity demand from 50TB up to 250TB in one chassis. Besides, there are SAS JBODs for options as well in order to scale up the total capacity; you can expand total capacity up to 256 drives, or over 1PB, via SAS JBODs.

The 16G FC storage series comes with single or dual redundant RAID controllers for options. The power supply and drives are both hot-swappable and modular design, which ease system maintenance and management. There are multiple RAID level support, including RAID0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 50, 60 and JBOD, and it supports local and global hot spare drive. All these design will ensure data integrity and enhance data protection.

The solutions are shipping.

Features:

• Performance

Built-in two 16Gb FC ports on each RAID controller doubles throughput than former 8Gb interface. It’s also backward compatible with existing 4Gb and 8Gb FC switch and infrastructure.

• Redundant and Hot Pluggable Modular Design

RAID controllers, power supplies, fan modules, and HDDs are all fully redundant and capable of hot-swap.

• Active/Active RAID Controllers

The active/active-controller design ensures no downtime from storage and avoid single point of failure.

• Green Storage

MAID 2.0 support, which enables energy saving and cost saving.