Product Overview |
Enhance Technology's new performance driven UltraStor RS series Enterprise SAS RAID system delivers over 800MB/sec speed to meet with data/transaction intensive applications. Utilizing point-to-point host / disk connectivity, the UltraStor RS8 SS offers Enterprise-grade fault tolerance solution and improved performance for applications that demand nothing short of superior reliability. UltraStor RS series is designed to accept both high reliability SAS disks and high capacity SATA disks, and is capable of dynamic storage expansion to 4x more enterprise RS16 JS JBOD storage sub-systems for a total of 80TB storage capacity. |
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UltraStor™ Versatility |
The high-performance ULTRASTOR™ RS8 SS is becoming the new standard for RAID protected storage which provides the most scalable performance and high level of storage reliability using the latest SAS architecture and RAID technologies. The ULTRASTOR™ RS8 SS provides up to eight (8) 15K SAS or 3Gbps SATA drives and features two SAS channels and one SAS expandable port. It is powered by a cutting edge 64-bit RAID engine with up to 2GB cache memory, which maximizes disk performance allowing for a broader range of storage possibilities. Built-in enterprise features such as Snapshot, N-way Mirror, RAID-6, & Web GUI management makes the new ULTRASTOR™ RS8 SS an ideal solution for server storage such as Microsoft Exchange & SQL Server or professional storage applications providing versatility critical to a company’s IT infrastructure. Dynamic on-line RAID volume expansion allows additional capacity to be added without total system downtime, increasing your department's productivity. |
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Key Features |
Hybrid SAS & SATA based disk storage system
2U modular rackmount design for easy integration
Storage expansion through RS16 JS system
Comprehensive RAID levels: 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60
Multiple RAID levels and stripe sizes per disk volume
Supports multiple RAID volume & instant availability
Optional remote monitoring and management over TCP |
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Appliance-based Storage |
ULTRASTOR™ RS8 SS is a host independent SAS RAID storage appliance which provides a transparent and driverless method of adding additional RAID protected storage to an existing IT infrastructure, regardless of your operating system or hardware. The ULTRASTOR™ RS8 SS series is designed to easily integrate into elaborate SAN fabrics or point-to-point centralized storage. ULTRASTOR™ RS8 SS truly offers a flexible and powerful solution that will increase your capacity, productivity and add unprecedented data protection. The RS8 SS is essential for video streaming process, nonlinear video editing, disk-to-disk backup, database pools, near-line storage, data centers, media & asset management libraries and shared SAN networks. |
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Powerful Storage Management |
The UltraStor RS8 SS offers multiple management options to match your workflow, and can be completely auto configured in minutes using the convenient rear LCD control panel, and monitored or reconfigured through a remote connection. A comprehensive menu screen facilitates the setup process and lets users reconfigure the system as storage needs change. An RS232 interface gives users access to advanced features such as multiple array settings. A network interface is available for remote web browser based management and includes the essential tools required to manage and monitor your RS8 SS anytime anywhere in the world.
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Multi-Path I/O |
Enhance Technology UltraStor™ RS Series enterprise Intelli-SAS RAID now supports Microsof  t Multipath I/O (MPIO) that integrates tightly with the Microsoft Windows® family of products and their architectures. High reliance on the Internet and e-commerce means that organizations are increasingly requiring that their data be available 24x7, year round. Multi-pathing, the ability of a system to use more than one read/write path to a storage device, is a high availability solution that provides fault tolerance against single-point-of failure in hardware components. Multi-pathing can also provide load balancing of I/O traffic, thereby improving system and application performance. |
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Power & Cooling |
ULTRASTOR™ RS8 SS keeps your workloads and critical applications running 24x7 without hardware failure interruption through the deployment of intelligent and user friendly power and cooling management, specifically its redundant hot-swappable power supplies (2) and fans (3). As described by the chief testing engineer from hard drive manufacturer Western Digital Corporation's interoperability lab ". This system can compete side by side with some of the best systems that we have tested in our lab to date." |
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Enclosure Specification
Hot-Swappability 8 x Removable HDD Tray
Drive Failure 8 x LED Indicator for each HDD
System Fan 3 hot-swappable blowers
Status LEDs 1 x access LED for each HDD
Fan-fail LED 1 x fan-fail LED for system
Mute Button 1 x mute button for fan &
temp alarm
Dimension (H x W x D) 3.5" x 17" x 20.5"
Weight (without disk) 45 Lbs
Physical & Environment
Temperature built in thermal & fan sensor
Operating Temperature 10°C ~ 35°C
Non-Operating Temperature -10°C ~ 50°C
Operating Humidity 20% to 90%
non-condensing
Supported Operating System
Windows 98/98SE, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008
Mac 9.1 and above
Linux (all latest builds)
And all other systems
Power Supply
Dual redundant removable power modules
1+1 hot swappable
AC input: 90 ~ 264 VAC, 47Hz ~ 63Hz
Continuous output power: 300W
Cooling
Three hot swappable fan modules
DNI BFB0712H brushless blowers
12V DC, 0.36A, 3-pin connector
Manufacturer Warranty
System Warranty 3 years
Certification FCC, CE, UL, TUV, BSMI, VCCI |
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| HDD Validation |
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| Application Compatibility: |
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| LSI Logic |
| LSI SAS3801E |
| LSI SAS3801X |
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| Test Environment: |
Windows XP Professional x64 2003 Edition SP2 |
| Memory: |
4 G |
| Motherboard: |
Supermicro X5DP8 |
| HBA (PCI-e): |
LSI 3801SAS HBA |
| Hard Disk Model: |
Hitachi Ultrastar 7200 2TB Drive |
| Vol Size: |
13.040(TB) |
| RAID Level: |
RAID 5 |
| Write/Read Speed: |
747/460 MB/s |
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