News Release from: StorCase Technology
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 21 July 2004
Enclosure fits ten drives in 1U
A new 1U SCSI backplane enclosure supports up to ten 2.5in SFF (small form factor) SCSI Ultra320 drives and incorporates features that assure flexibility for a variety of configurations.
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A new 1U SCSI backplane enclosure supports up to ten 2.5in SFF (small form factor) SCSI Ultra320 drives and incorporates features that assure flexibility for a variety of configurations. The InfoStation 10-bay 1U is designed specifically to support Seagate's new Savvio 2.5in enterprise-level drives. With the introduction of Savvio drives as the industry's first 2.5in SCSI drives and the development of the StorCase 10-bay InfoStation as the first SCSI Ultra320 enclosure available in the market to support this latest drive size, a new generation of higher-density enterprise storage has arrived.
"IDC expects adoption of 2.5in enterprise-class drives to begin this year, with more significant adoption in 2005", said Dave Reinsel, Programme Director, Storage Research, IDC, "Early introduction of products such as StorCase's InfoStation help to initiate and increase market adoption of these new SFF drives".
The new 10-bay InfoStation for 2.5in drives is extremely space-efficient and allows daisychaining for anticipated future system growth.
The flexible enclosure is software-configurable to support either single or dual host connections.
"Three 1U 10-bay InfoStation enclosures can be used to create a 30-drive SCSI storage system using only 3U of rack space, whereas two 3Us would be required to accomplish an equivalent system with traditional 3.5in drive enclosures - this is a rack space savings of at least 50%", stated Joel Tang, StorCase Director of Engineering, "The 1U InfoStation also consumes significantly less power than larger 3.5in drive enclosures, conserving energy and also allowing for much cooler and quieter operation", Tang added.
"The StorCase InfoStation with Seagate Savvio drives increases data centre efficiency and productivity by improving system-level IOPS and supports the rapid consolidation of data centre space while yielding significant cost savings", stated Dallas Meyer, Vice President of Development, Enterprise Storage for Seagate.
"Both of these solutions allow the IT industry to take the next inevitable step towards standardising on higher-density 2.5in drives and reap the benefits associated with them".
All StorCase InfoStation enclosures exceed the rotational vibration and heat dissipation requirements for the operation of high performance, high capacity drives.
InfoStation enclosures are accompanied by a seven-year warranty (three years for power supplies and fan modules) in addition to StorCase's 24/7 technical phone support.
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