SLI-Consulting adds world’s first 500 GB enterprise hard drive, Seagate NL35 Series, to its StorageNetwork range

Sydney 6 February 2006- SLI-Consulting Pty Limited today announced that it has added Seagate Technology LCC NL35 enterprise hard drive to its Fibre Channel and SATA range of StorageNetwork subsystems. The incorporation of the 400 and 500 GB Seagate NL35 hard drives further extends the SLI-Consulting range of data storage solutions for its customer base in Data Centre, Post Production, Earth Resources, Medical Imaging and military industries throughout Australia, New Zealand and  Asia-Pacific.

Incorporating the NL35 Series into SLI-Consulting’s StorageNetwork range of high performance storage devices will provide a range of benefits for enterprise customers.  Seagate's newest 7,200 rpm hard drive satisfies the requirements of:

• D2D (disc-to-disc) backup/recovery storage
• Virtual tape backup/recovery storage
• Fixed-content storage for image and document management
• Lower-tiered storage of regulatory compliance or other reference data
• Video archiving for security/surveillance and video distribution

The disk drive is built on a proven drive design with demonstrated enterprise class reliability and product quality.

"Seagate NL35 hard drives will help StorageNetwork customers realise greater operational savings, whilst improving their data storage capabilities, and to seamless integrate with high performance 15k Fibre Channel drives in tiered storage Application” outlined José Goldmann, Principal, SLI-Consulting. “With proven reliability and a low total cost of ownership, Seagate NL35 drives add substantial value to the StorageNetwork solution and make it an ideal choice for customers requiring a fully scalable and cost-effective data storage environment.”

Today’s announcement also reinforces SLI-Consulting’s commitment to its OEMs and Systems Integrators.

“Our move to be one of the first subsystem manufacturers to provide full integration with the NL35 Series enterprise hard drive is highly strategic,” continued Goldmann.

“This provides a solid opportunity for our OEMs and Systems Integrators to capitalise on being able to offer similar levels of data storage capacity with no decrease in operating performance and a 34 percent footprint reduction – all at a saving of up to 41% when compared to 300 GB hdd deployment,” Goldmann concluded.

The SLI-Consulting StorageNetwork range of modular, scalable and redundant storage enables the provision of high density NAS, SAN and traditional DAS solutions. These Open System OS independent products combine high performance with un-compromised data reliability.

Technical Specifications

The NL35 500 GB FC hdd inclusion allows SLI-Consulting’s Carrier Class FC RAID array SN-1600-FFX2 (NEBS-3 certified) to scale up to 56 TB within 21U of standard 19” rack space and the Enterprise class SN-1600-X24 to scale up to 120 TB in 45U of standard 19” rack space.

• 16-bay Fibre Channel and SATA array - 8 TB in 3U standard 19” rack space
• 12-bay Fibre Channel and SATA array - 6 TB in 2U standard 19” rack space

Pricing

An 8 TB StorageNetwork FC RAID Array (SN-1600-FC) starts from $33,900 - 16 TB starts from $57,900.

An 8 TB StorageNetwork SATA RAID Array (SN-4200) starts from $24,990 - 16 TB starts from $46,990.

A 6 TB StorageNetwork NAS/iSCSI appliance (SN-1235) starts from $19,990.

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