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Nexsan E-Series Overview

HIGHEST DENSITY SAN STORAGE SYSTEM

The E-Series™, a member of Nexsan’s Flexible Storage Platform™, is Nexsan’s advanced SAN storage system for mid-sized organizations needing an extremely dense and highly reliable solution. Nexsan's expertise in capacity-optimized storage has led to industry-leading efficiencies at the lowest possible cost-per-terabye for applications like disk backup, bulk storage and more, all tailored to fit in any environment whether traditional, virtual or cloud. The Nexsan E60™ offers 60 drives for up to 180TB in 4U. The Nexsan E48™ offers 48 drives for up to 144TB in 4U and the Nexsan E18™ offers 18 drives for up to 54TB in 2U. Each can be easily expanded with additional capacity by adding an E18X or E60X expansion unit.

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The E-Series delivers industry leading density and power efficiency for the smallest storage footprint with up to 3X the capacity in the same space as a typical array while consuming up to 85% less power and cooling. A fault tolerant and highly reliable architecture ensures enterprise-class data protection. Innovative ease-of-use functionality makes deploying and managing storage a simple task for the resource constrained IT generalist. It comes pre-configured and is up and running in 10 minutes or less with intuitive wizards – no professional services required.

The E-Series is highly flexible supporting multiple drive types and protocols for administrators needing a single system to support varying workloads. SATA/SAS/SSD can be tiered together to support both capacity and performance driven applications. I/O ports include dual port 8Gb FC, or dual port 10Gb iSCSI, or dual port 24Gb SASX4; coupled with two 1Gb iSCSI ports. With dual raid engines per controller, the E-Series delivers blazing wire-speed read/write throughput and high IOPS. The active/active dual controller configuration provides twice the I/O ports and increases system performance.

Offering superior reliability, the E-Series meets and exceeds the most stringent demands with a top-tier mechanical design that removes heat and vibration from the chassis via Cool Drive Technology™ and vibration dampening design. Nexsan’s Active Drawer Technology™ is an industry-first, making extreme density easily and quickly serviced by one person - simply pull out a drawer of drives, and the system remains online! In addition, extensive drive stress testing qualifies E-Series system reliability before shipment.

Key Benefits

  • 180TB in 4U (E60), 144TB in 4U (E48) or 54TB in 2U (E18)
  • Active Drawer Technology™ for uninterrupted I/O during maintenance
  • Combine SAS, SATA and SSD in the same system
  • Save up to 85% on energy with built-in AutoMAID® technology
  • Cool Drive Technology™ maximizes airflow
  • Vibration dampening design maximizes disk reliability
  • Future Proof design enables upgrade of IO port types
  • Expand with up to 60 additional drives with Nexsan E18X and E60X
  • Optional 10Gbit iSCSI replaces 8Gb Fibre Channel ports
  • Fault tolerant with hot-swappable active components

The E60 is a powerful system that is ideal for our mulit-purpose storage environment. We have always been impressed by their price, ease-of-use and power saving capabilities."

BRIAN TROUDY, NETWORK MANAGER

CORONA-NORCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

Your product is incredible. Never have I known such resilience built into a single box, your technical support is second to none and I would whole heartedly recommend your company to anyone with no fear of reprisals, rare in this day and age."

TONY CARTWRIGHT
TECHNICAL SERVICES SYSTEMS TEAM LEADER

THE BRUNTS

The first thing that impressed me was all the work they put into the front end GUI. It was very easy for me to traverse the interface and figure out the best way to deploy it. The Nexsan offering also slotted directly into what I needed and wasn’t filled with features that I really couldn’t use in my current environment.”

REID STEINER, DIRECTOR OF IT OPERATIONS

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