RAID, Inc.: ARI-600 Series Rackmount Storage Systems Including ARI-600 2U 12-Bay 3.5-Inch, ARI-603 2U 24-Bay 2.5-Inch, and ARI-609 5U 84-Bay

RAID Inc. announces the ARI-600 Series, ots 3rd gen of its ARI systems, replacing the ARI-200 and ARI-400 Series.

ARI-600 Series appliances

While these systems look and feel like its predecessors, the ARI-600 Series has new processors, interconnects, ASICs, declustered RAID technology and self-healing storage technology (Self Sufficient Drive Restoration, or SSDR), which offer greater performance, higher capacities, faster rebuild times and 5 nines availability (99.999%).

Increased performance is a major highlight of the series; the products boast 12GB/s on sequential reads and 10GB/s on sequential writes while also being able to sustain up to 740,000 random read IO/s in all-flash configurations. The systems can also be configured for several different file systems and applications, making the ARI-600 Series a storage solution for many different verticals.

The product line comes in 3 form factor sizes, including a 2U 12-bay 3.5” (ARI-600), a 2U 24-bay 2.5” (ARI-603) and a 5U 84-bay (ARI-609). The ARI-609 product allows for hybrid configurations of SSD, 10,000, and 7,200rpm HDD media with a maximum capacity of 6.7PB. The ARI-609 product is qualified to ship with 20TB HDDs while the ARI-603 supports SSD capacities of up to 15.36TB per slot. In addition, the latest generation ARI systems support 12Gb SAS as well as 32Gb FC and 25GbE iSCSI to leverage newer host connections available in the market.

“RAID Inc. is extremely excited for this product announcement,” stated Marc DiZoglio, GM. “The ARI product has always been a work horse for our customers and, with the release of the next-generation ARI-600 Series, they can now gain significant performance increases. Our goal has always remained the same, and that is to be as fast and flexible as possible while providing first-in-class support to our customers.”

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