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Nexsan Introduces Industry’s First Green SAS Storage Solution with MAID 2.0

SASBoy Delivers High Performance and Energy Savings for Fixed Content

Core News Facts:

SAS Storage for fixed content

High performance RAID solution built around the latest high performance SAS disk drives
High density -- up to 4.2TB in only 3U
Nexsan’s revolutionary AutoMAID™ energy saving technology greatly reduces power consumption and operating costs without compromising application performance
High availability -- all mission critical components are hot swappable and fully redundant
Completely OS independent

With breakthrough innovation, Nexsan has again advanced storage with the high performance, energy efficient SASBoy. The SASBoy provides organizations with exceptional performance and unparalleled energy savings in a compact package to meet real world business needs.

The highly flexible SASBoy features FC and iSCSI connectivity to enable cost-effective high performance access to large amounts of information ensuring faster response times for fixed content applications. SASBoy is equally capable of delivering high IOPS for transactional applications.

Energy-Saving Benefits

SASBoy offers the energy saving benefits of Nexsan's revolutionary AutoMAID™ technology. AutoMAID™ (Massive Array of Idle Disks) allows SASBoy to place its disk drives into several levels energy savings without compromising application performance. This powerful combination of high performance with energy saving capabilities enables users to lower the cost of owning storage.

Product Details

Up to fourteen 300GB SAS drives, for a total of 4.2TB
Released with 15,000 RPM SAS drives
Integrated 4Gb Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity for flexible implementation
High availability - All mission critical components, including RAID controllers, are hot swappable and fully redundant
NexScan™, our platform independent Web enabled GUI, provides simple system configuration, event and component monitoring from any standard web browser
Multi-box management - NexScan enables remote management and configuration of multiple SASBoy and SATABoy arrays from a single GUI
Three Year Warranty - Advance Exchange, 24X7 technical support
Continual event monitoring with active user notification
Dynamic spare pooling and dedicated spares; array verification
Tele-Guard™, Nexsan’s phone home manager, enables preemptive degradation monitoring and assigned reporting of all system conditions
Active array status monitoring; adjustable stripe width; automatic sector remapping
LUN Masking capability with full Access Control List (ACL) Read/Write and Read Only permissions per initiator, per LUN along with group policies
SNMP traps supported
Multiple RAID sets supported in a single unit
System security password protected
All system settings are stored in non-volatile flash memory in case of accidental power loss
Parity Scrub / Array Verify scheduling - User defined automatic repair of all configured arrays

AutoMAID™ Energy Saving Technology

Like all Nexsan products, the SASBoy has a design focused on saving energy without compromising application performance. SASBoy with AutoMAID has moved beyond the "on or off" implementations of other storage solutions to offer several levels of energy savings enabling the disk system to be "on", save energy and maintain application performance.

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Technical Specifications

Host Interface / Connectivity: Dual 4Gb Fibre ports and Dual iSCSI ports per controller
Controllers: Single or Dual Controller Active-Active Failover / Cache Coherency
Drive Bay Size: 14 Bay / 3U
Drive Type: 3 Gb/s. Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface
Cache: Up to 2GB
Battery Back-up: Yes
RAID Levels: 0, 1, 1+0, 4, 5 and 6
Data Transfer Rates: Up to 50,000 random IOPS from cache
LUNs Supported: 255
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Dimensions and Weight: click here for details
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About Nexsan Technologies
Nexsan Corporation is a leading provider of energy-efficient, long-term storage systems. Nexsan delivers secure storage appliances and modular, capacity-optimized disk-storage systems for a broad range of applications including fixed content storage and archiving, email, medical imaging, compliance and litigation support, disk-based backup, digital video security, and rich media. Nexsan’s solutions are the choice of small and medium-sized companies as well as large global enterprises and major governmental agencies around the world who are seeking cost-correct, high density storage solutions. Founded in 1999 and based in Thousand, Oaks, Calif., Nexsan sells its products exclusively through a select global network of VARs, OEMs and system integrators. For more information, please see the company's website at www.nexsan.com.

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Nexsan Introduces Industry’s First Green SAS Storage Solution with MAID 2.0

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