EUROstor Increased RAID Performance With 12Gb SAS

At CeBIT, EUROstor GmbH will present the first RAID systems with 12Gb SAS to the hosts and the HDDs.

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In case of RAID systems the bandwidth of the server connection is of utmost importances, particularly if large data volumes have to be processed which are to be written on or read by the system in a predominantly sequential manner. This particularly applies in case of video data and backup or storage solutions.

With the models of the ES-6600 RAID series EUROstor offers systems using 12Gb SAS (SAS-3) not only towards the externally connected servers, but also internally towards the HDDs. The expansion of the system with JBODs is also done with 4x12Gb, thus ensuring a high data throughput even in case of a completely expanded system with up to 240 HDDs.

ES-6600 RAID systems are equipped with a dual core RAID controller. They support both SATA and SAS HDDs and SSDs. The configuration of several RAID sets with different types of HDDs in the same housing is also possible, thus allowing for different applications to be distributed to storage systems of different speed according to the respective requirements.

In order to achieve increased redundancy these systems are offered as dual controller RAID.

“With the SAS-3 technology we can offer maximum SAS performance to our customers”, says Franz Bochtler, GM, EUROstor. “With four times 12 Gbit per port the bandwidth to the bus is larger than with the fastest FC or iSCSI connections ñ at considerably lower costs.”

The all-inclusive price for a ES-6600 system with 24×3.5” HDD slots and two 12Gb (x4) SAS host ports, partially equipped with 8x4TB SATA enterprise HDDs, amounts to €8,913.10 including VAT (€7,490.00 without VAT).

Apart from the ES-6600 RAID system EUROstor will present other storage solutions at CeBIT 2015.