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Nexsan
SATABeast 8Gb FC

Nexsan SATABeast Storage System

[42 Drive, 8Gb FC & iSCSI]

Unleash the power of the SATABeast™ extreme density storage array from Nexsan Technologies. Designed from the ground up to set new standards for high-capacity storage systems, SATABeast delivers the industry's best performance and cost-effectiveness in a scalable disk solution. With unparalleled density, availability and energy efficiency, SATABeast maximizes the return on your storage hardware investment.
Cost Correct Enterprise Class Reliability

SATABeast is the first storage high performance, high capacity RAID storage system that also offers the energy saving benefits of AutoMAID™ technology. AutoMAID™ (Massive Array of Idle Disks) allows SATABeast to place its disk drives to an idle state to conserve energy yet provide near-instantaneous access to data. SATABeasts unique combination of technologies delivers unsurpassed performance, reliability and cost savings for a broad range of storage requirements. With an extreme density design provides a compact footprint and scales to 210 cost-correct terabytes of capacity in a single rack, SATABeast easily meets the demands of large-scale storage environments.

Unleash the Beast for
  • Primary Storage. Designed for enterprise class environments where reliability is an absolute, SATABeasts high availability architecture features full redundancy across all active components. Blazing wire-speed read/write throughput and high IOPS performance make SATABeast the perfect choice for data-intensive applications.
  • D2D - Disk to Disk Backup. Online access to data means superior business continuity. With SATABeast you no longer need to store important data on slow and inaccessible media such as tape or optical. SATABeast provides the speed, fault tolerance and availability to deliver superior disk-based backup with a smaller footprint and less cost than tape libraries.
  • Secondary Storage. The enterprise class features and performance of the SATABeast enable large file repositories for thousands of users to be stored on a single system. Completely OS independent, SATABeast requires no drivers and easily integrates into existing storage infrastructures.
  • Fixed Content Archive. The unmatched capacity of the SATABeast easily handles enormous volumes of files. With its energy saving AutoMAID™ technology, SATABeast enables massive archives to be cost-effectively stored and instantly accessed.
SATABeast Storage System [42 Drive, 8Gb FC & iSCSI]
Nexsan SATABeast 8Gb FC Documentation
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System Configuration
Max. Raw Capacity: 84TB
Max. Cache: 4GB
Min. Cache: 1GB
Max. HDD Count: 42
Min. HDD Count: 14
HDD Support:
500GB SATA 7K
1TB SATA 7K
2TB SATA 5K
2TB SATA 7K
RAID Support:
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 1+0
RAID 4
RAID 5
RAID 6
Host Connections:
1Gb FC
2Gb FC
4Gb FC
8Gb FC
1Gb iSCSI
Dual Controllers: Optional
NAS/iSCSI Support: Yes
Model Upgrade Options: None
Performance Specifications
Bandwidth to Host: N/A
IOPS Cache Burst Rate: N/A
SPC-1 IOPS Benchmark: N/A
MB/s Transfer Rate: N/A
Non-Disruptive Options
Component Replacement: Yes
Hot-Pluggable Disks: Yes
Microcode Updates: Yes
 
Would you like quotes for comparable products from other manufacturers:  yes  no
Raw Storage Capacity Requirement (TB):
Total number of servers to be connected:
Anticipated purchase cycle:
Primary Application/Purpose:
Exchange
Oracle
SQL
SAP
PeopleSoft
Media Archiving
Media Streaming
Consolidation
Healthcare
Other
Preferred HDD Support:
500GB SATA 7K
1TB SATA 7K
2TB SATA 5K
2TB SATA 7K
Preferred RAID Support:
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 1+0
RAID 4
RAID 5
RAID 6
Preferred Host Connections:
1Gb FC
2Gb FC
4Gb FC
8Gb FC
1Gb iSCSI
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Nexsan SATABeast Storage System [42 Drive, 8Gb FC & iSCSI]
Nexsan
SATABeast 8Gb FC
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Nexsan SATABeast Storage System [42 Drive, 4Gb FC & iSCSI]
Nexsan
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System Configuration
Max. Raw Capacity84TB84TB313TB
Max. Cache4GB4GB8GB
Min. Cache1GB2GB4GB
Max. HDD Count4242159
Min. HDD Count14144
HDD Support
500GB SATA 7K
1TB SATA 7K
2TB SATA 5K
2TB SATA 7K
500GB SATA 7K
1TB SATA 7K
2TB SATA 5K
2TB SATA 7K
200GB SSD
300GB 3Gb SAS 15K
450GB 3Gb SAS 10K
600GB 3Gb SAS 15K
1TB SATA 7K
2TB SATA 7K
RAID Support
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 1+0
RAID 4
RAID 5
RAID 6
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 1+0
RAID 4
RAID 5
RAID 6
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 1+0
RAID 5
RAID 6
Host Connections
1Gb FC
2Gb FC
4Gb FC
8Gb FC
1Gb iSCSI
1Gb FC
2Gb FC
4Gb FC
1Gb iSCSI
2Gb FC
4Gb FC
8Gb FC
1Gb iSCSI
1GbE
Fibre Bandwidth to HostN/AN/AN/A
Fibre Bandwidth to DiskN/AN/AN/A
Dual ControllersOptionalOptionalYes
OS Support
AIX
HP-UX
Hyper-V
Linux
Mac OS X
Netware
OpenVMS
Red Hat Ent. Linux
Sun Solaris
Suse Linux Ent.
Tru64
UNIX
VMWare
Windows 2000
Windows Server 2003
NAS/iSCSI SupportYesYesYes
Model Upgrade OptionsNoneN/AAMS2300, AMS2500
Performance Specifications
Bandwidth to HostN/AN/AN/A
IOPS Cache Burst RateN/AN/AN/A
SPC-1 IOPS BenchmarkN/AN/AN/A
MB/s Transfer RateN/AN/AN/A
Non-Disruptive Options
Component ReplacementYesYesYes
Hot-Pluggable DisksYesYesYes
Microcode UpdatesYesYesYes
NotesN/AN/AN/A
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