SLI-Consulting breaks the magical US$ 10k barrier on 2 TB SAN storage for the SME market
19 May 2004 - SLI-Consulting Pty Limited, a wholly Australian-owned data storage specialist has announced the availability of low cost Fibre Channel SANs with its StorageNetwork XA24 (SN-4200-SATA), a self-contained Serial ATA (SATA) storage array that features embedded storage management software with the newly released 400 GB SATA drives from Hitachi Global STroage Technology (Hitachi GST).
Aimed at the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME), the XA24 can provide users with a 1 TB configuration starting at less than $ 9k.
The XA24 is a 2G-bit/sec storage system equipped with up to 16 only 250 GB SATA, 16 x 320 GB ATA or 16 x 400 GB SATA disk drives. The system scales up to 6.4 TB (single 3 U chassis) and up to 44.8 TB with expansion JBODs. The XA24 provides four front-end Fibre Channel ports and up to 2 GB of cache memory.
Estimated end user investment value starts from $ 9,995 for 2 TB configuration. The investment value for a configuration with 5 TB is $ 15,995. A configuration with 10 TB would be at $ 29,990 and 35 TB for $99,900. The $value for the maximum configuration of 44.8 TB within 21U standard 19” rack space is $ 131,900.
"They really are the first example of a low-cost, intelligent, redundant and highly scalable SAN ready RAID array," said José C Goldmann founder of SLI-Consulting.
All of the XA24 components, including the storage controller processors, disk drives, power supplies/centrifugal blower assembly modules, are hot-swappable, redundant and field replaceable units (FRU). The XA24 features dual active storage processor modules with transparent fail-over support and integrated RAID levels 0, 0+1, 3, 5, 10, 30, 50. The StorageNetwork X24 supports mainstream OS’ like UNIX/Linux, Windows, Mac 8, 9 & X, Novell. All StorageNetwork arrays are made in the UK/USA and are covered under a three year manufacturers warranty.
"We built this array for enterprise and data centres to address Tier 2 and nearline storage requirements as well as SME who want to spend between $10k and $150k on a storage system. We can provide a storage solution for organisations who are beginning to think about SANs and are saying: 'I can get two Terabytes for less then $10k, and I'll have a SAN in place that I can grow over time as dynamically as with my business requirements in mind.'," Mr Goldmann said.
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