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RAID System: Key
Benefits
Ease
of Use
The
SRF116 and SRF216 can be built to order and delivered
pre-configured to meet your storage requirements.
Further, the SRF116 and SRF216 are operating
system-independent therefore no host software is
required. The
SRF216 offers host-transparent and host-independent
failover/failback. Both
the SRF116 and SRF216 are available with Distributed Array
Management (DAM) software for easy to use management.
High
Performance
The
SRF116 and SRF216 RAID controller delivers sustained
transfer rates over 350 MB/sec making the controllers
excel in high-bandwidth environments such as video
editing. Built
with a 233 MHz RISC processor, hardware XOR, and support
for up to 512 MB of cache per controller, the SRF116 and
SRF216 are sure to meet your performance requirements.
Scalability
The
SRF116 and SRF216 offer industry-leading scalability.
Adding an additional six 16-drive JBODs allows an
SRF system to scale to 8 TB of storage in just 21U of rack
space.
High
Availability
The
SRF116 and SRF216 support RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 3, 5, 30,
50, and JBOD. Additional
high-availability features include online capacity
expansion, online array initialization, dedicated and
pooled spares, battery-backed ECC-protected cache, and
hot-swap replacement of disk drives.
The
SRF216 supports host-transparent failover/failback and the
cache data is fully mirrored across both controllers to
ensure data integrity.
The SRF116/SRF216 enclosure comes standard with a
backend Loop Resiliency Circuit (LRC) allowing the user to
configure the enclosure with a single loop of 16 drives
(applicable when adding additional JBODs) or dual 16-drive
loops, therefore ensuring there is a redundant
path to the disk drives.
The enclosure also comes standard with redundant,
auto-ranging
450 W power supplies.
Fault indicators are also standard for power
supplies, temperature, drives, fan modules, and
controllers. All
Field Replaceable Units (FRUs), including power supplies,
fan modules, drives, and RAID controllers are hot-pluggable.
Lastly,
the SRF116/SRF216 enclosure is the first in its class to
provide a fully redundant cooling system capable of
withstanding temperatures of up to 40º C.
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