E8 Mini-SAS, Multi-lane & Port Multiplier HBA Dependent SAS/SATA Desktop Storage

Overview
Specification
Compatibility

Product Overview

A Pioneer and leader in hybrid I/O technologies, Enhance Technology introduces the EnhanceBOX E8 Series, a host card (HBA) dependent, desktop storage array product line, developed for OEM, VAR, & storage solution providers. Supporting both SAS or SATA I/II hard disks, the E8 Series features a new generation Mini-SAS (MS), Multi-lane (ML) and Port multiplier (PM) host connectivity capable of sustaining data rates up to 450MB/Sec (Mini-SAS Model). Constructed with aluminum material and hot-swappable cooling fan, the E8 Series is the coolest storage system on the market with a host of hot-swap components, empowering users with capabilities normally found in enterprise-class SCSI systems.

Technology

The E8 Series was built on the latest I/O technology, the Mini-SAS (SFF-8088), Multilane (ML) and Port Multiplier (PM) connectivity , for multiple-disk configurations and superior airflow. The Enhance Technology E8 Series comes with highly reliable, thumb screw type cable/connector that combines up to eight (8) low-cost SATA or high reliable SAS (ML & MS Models) disks to the broadband high performance computing environments. Available in 8 or 4 -port configurations, the E8 Series is the only and coolest external desktop storage array helped resellers and integrators to offer more cost/effective storage solution to the end customers.

Product Specifications

MODEL COMPARISON	E8 - ML	E8 - PM	E8 - MS
Form Factor	Compact 8 -Drive Tower	Compact 8 -Drive Tower	Compact 8 -Drive Tower
Host Interface	Multi-lane	Port Multiplier	Mini-SAS (SFF-8088)
Disk Interface	SAS/SATAII 3Gb	SATA I/SATA II	SAS/SATA II 3Gb
External Cable	2 x Infiniband RX 4	2 x eSATA Cable	2 x Mini-SAS Cable
Number of Disks Supported	Up to 8	Up to 8	Up to 8
Performance	Up to 400MB/sec	Up to 300MB/sec	Up to 450MB/sec
Power Supply	Single 300Watt or 2x350 Watt Redundant	Single 300Watt or 2x350 Watt Redundant	Single 300Watt or 2x350 Watt Redundant
AC Input	115-230V~ 6/3A 50-60Hz	115-230V~ 6/3A 50-60Hz	115-230V~ 6/3A 50-60Hz
OUTPUT	+12V/12A +5V/30A	+12V/12A +5V/30A	+12V/12A +5V/30A

Power & Cooling

The E Series keeps your workloads and critical applications running with minimum hardware failure interruption through the deployment of user friendly enclosure cooling management, specifically its hot-swappable fan and removable HDD trays (5). With the enclosed enclosure design, aluminum material and construction, direct airflow engineering, and rear hot-swappable fan implementation, this compact SATA-disk based external enclosure manage to outperform the enterprise SCSI class system in a heart beat.

Key Features

Aluminum material construction
Built-in SAS/SATA II compatible backplane
Eight hot-swappable HDD drive trays with individual keylock
One hot-swappable enclosure fan facilitates regular maintenance
One thumbscrew enabled front door with optical LED indicators
Fan-fail LED and alarm with mute button
Power & Status LED indicators on the door

Model Description
E8-MS Compact Desktop 8-Drive SAS / SATA-to-Mini-SAS
E8-ML Compact 2U 8-Drive SAS / SATA-to-Multi-lane
E8-PM Compact 2U 8-Drive SATA-to-eSATA

Disk Support
E8-MS 8 Drives SAS / SATA Disks
E8-ML 8 Drives SAS / SATA Disks
E8-PM 8 Drives SATA Disks
Max. HDD Supported 8 SATA I/II HDDs
Max. HDD Supported 8 SAS HDDs (MS & ML only)
Max. HDD Capacity 1.5TB
Max. System Capacity 12TB

Host Connections
E8-MS 2x Mini-SAS ports
E8-ML 2x Multi-lane ports
E8-PM 2x eSATA ports

Enclosure
Hot-Swappable 8 x Removable HDD Tray
Drive Failure 1 LED indicators for each HDD
System Fan 8cm x 4 Ball-Bearing fan (installed)
Security 8 individual keylocks for each
HDD drive tray

Cooling
Everflow Model F 128025BH brushless fan
DC 12V, 0.19 AMP

Physical & Environment
Operating Temperature 10°C ~ 35°C
Non-Operating Temperature -10°C ~ 50°C

Power Supply
AC Input: 100-240V, ~2A, 47~63Hz
Output: +12V/5A +5V/5A

Dimensions
(H x W x D) 11.5 " x 5.75 " x 17.5"

Weight
35 Lbs (without disk drives)

Material
Face Plate Bezel Sturdy ABS Plastic
Housing & Tray Aluminum alloy

Supported Operating System
Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, 2008
Mac 9.X, 10.X
Red Hat Enterprise
VMware ESX 3.5

Manufacturer Warranty
3 years limited manufacture warranty

HDD Validation

Validated SATA 3.5 HDD
	Hitachi Deskstar	Seagate Barracuda	Maxtor Diamond MAX
160GB			X
250GB	X	X	X
400GB	X	X	X
500GB	X	X	X
750GB	X	X
1TB	X	X
1.5TB		X

Validated SAS 3.5 HDD (E8 ML, E8 MS Only)
	Hitachi	Seagate	Maxtor
	Ultrastar	Cheetah	Atlas 10K V	Atlas 15K II
36GB	X
36.7GB				X
73GB	X	X
73.5GB			X	X
146GB		X
147GB	X
147.1GB			X	X
300GB			X
400GB		X
450GB		X

HBA Validation

Non-RAID Mini-SAS (E8 MS Only)
Areca	ATTO	HighPoint	LSI Logic
ARC-1120	ExpressSAS R380	RocketRAID 2314	LSI SAS3801E
		RocketRAID 2322	LSI SAS3801X
		RocketRAID 3522

Non-RAID Multi-lane (E8 ML Only)
Areca	ATTO	HighPoint	LSI Logic
ARC-1680x	ExpressSAS R380	RocketRAID 2322	LSI SAS3801E
ARC-1120ML		RocketRAID 3522	LSI SAS3801X

Non-RAID Port Multiplier (E8 PM Only)
HighPoint	Silicon Image
RocketRAID 2314	SI3124

Host OS: Windows, Macintosh