Nexsan SATABeast Xi - Mac Pro Storage System

Nexsan has taken its award-winning SATABeast storage system and redesigned it for Mac environments. With unparalleled density, availability and energy efficiency, SATABeast Xi is the perfect fit for Mac storage.

• High density storage - up to 42 TB in only 4U
• Built for Xserve and Mac Pro systems
• Revolutionary AutoMAID energy saving technology greatly reduces power consumption and operating costs
• Full Enterprise class performance, reliability and management
• Dual function Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity with wire-speed performance
• Flexible, scalable and completely OS independent. Supports a broad range of storage infrastructures.

Key Benefits 

With SATABeast Xi, Nexsan engineers have architected the industry's most complete and cost-effective high capacity storage system. SATABeast Xi's advanced mechanical design provides superior cooling for optimal thermal operation, reduces drive vibration and delivers outstanding energy efficiency in an extreme density (42 drives in 4U high) form factor. SATABeast's unique design extends individual drive life and provides TCO savings year over year.

SATABeast Xi employs Nexsan's revolutionary AutoMAID™ energy saving technology. AutoMAID transparently places disk drives in an idle state reducing power consumption and operational costs. AutoMAID delivers the cost-saving benefits of MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks) without the limitations of slow access times and special host software. Nexsan's AutoMAID is granular to an individual drive or RAID set and enables users to determine the level of access speed and energy savings desired. AutoMAID is the first MAID 2.0 architecture that supports VTL (Virtual Tape Libraries), full file format D2D and standard RAID implementations.

SATABeast Xi performs continuous background integrity scans to ensure drive health and data accessibility. Each controller features full cache coherency to maintain data integrity even in the event of a power loss.

Nexsan's award-winning high performance SATA RAID controller architecture utilizes dual RAID engines on each SATABeast Xi controller to provide extremely high throughput performance across 42 spindles. SATABeast Xi's 42 high capacity drives can be segmented into multiple RAID sets or a single large storage pool. LUN Mapping allows users to easily configure the massive disk capacity for dozens of servers or one.

All individual SATABeast Xi components are fully redundant and hot swappable. This advanced design provides increased ROI by eliminating the need to replace an entire multi-drive blade should a single drive fail.

SATABeast's Xi management interface is built into the SATABeast Xi controller, alleviating the need to have a separate server or application manage the storage array. This sophisticated management utility monitors and reports the status of all subsystems over a 10/100/1000-network port. Included in NexScan are Tele-GuardT, Nexsan's phone-home feature for user notification of errors or prediction of error, and WorldView, our multi-box management feature.

Advanced Features

• Enterprise class storage array built around the latest high-capacity SATA disk drives
• High performance – over 800 MB/s sustained throughput
• Reduced energy consumption and costs through AutoMAID™ technology
• All active components are redundant and individually hot-swappable
• High density per rack inch
• Supports RAID 0, 1, 1+0, 4, 5 and 6
• WorldView™ - Provides ability to manage and configure multiple Nexsan units from a single GUI
• Anti-Accumulative Rotational Vibration design enables maximum drive reliability.
• Supports multiple RAID sets and multiple volumes per set
• Horizontal midplane design promotes superior airflow and alleviates insertion stress points
• Integrated Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity for flexible implementation
• Completely OS independent. No special software drivers or server-based management applications required.
• SATABeast Xi delivers access to data up to 500 times faster than tape libraries and 20x faster than other MAID systems.
• Embedded web-browsable GUI over 10/100/1000 port, supports email alerts and SNMP traps
• Up to 2GB cache per controller
• Supports up to 256 LUNS per controller

User Interface 

The SATABeast Xi user interface provides access to your system from any standard Web browser including Safari or any host computer directly or via a LAN or WAN. The SATABeast Xi GUI is platform independent and requires no software or patches.

• Automated status review of disk drives, power supplies, fans and RAID controllers
• Single click access to all problems and warnings
• Event log for all significant events stored on disk
• Automated array verification prior to production; automatic "parity scrub" performed as background task every 24 hours
• Additional access via RS-232 serial port or network interface to an ANSI terminal or emulator
• Complete listing of voltages, temperature, battery mode, cache settings, network settings, and blower RPM
• Automatic IP address assignment via DHCP, as well as manual IP Gleaning over serial port or via web page
• SMART environmental monitoring support
• Cache management page allows local configuration or remotely via standard SCSI commands
• DNS support for symbolic addresses
• Easily build RAID sets, partition RAID volumes, map volumes to LUNs and host ports, as well as spares management
• Alerts and warnings sent via SMTP email alerts with problem summary, hyperlink to the enclosure management, as well as user-defined fields
• Extra security feature requires manual confirmation of destructive media operations
• Battery-backed Clock/Calendar used to time stamp all major events
• Configure and monitor subsystem using any standard web browser