Solutions
for Energy Savings
Nexsan's storage and archiving
solutions deliver energy savings innovation that will greatly cut power and
cooling costs without sacrificing performance including:
- Evolutionary AutoMAID
(Automatic Massive Array of Idle Disks) energy saving technology - the first
to market implementation of MAID 2.0
- High capacity storage that
not only reduces power and cooling requirements, but frees up valuable rack
space
Storage
Arrays
At no additional cost, Nexsan
storage arrays come standard with AutoMAID and all our other energy saving
features.
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SATABeast: With up to 42TB in 4U and enterprise class
performance, reliability and management, SATABeast offers energy efficiency
for secondary, online archive, and nearline storage applications
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SATABeast Xi: Designed for the Xserve and Mac Pro systems,
SATABeast Xi delivers the same power and cooling savings as SATABeast
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SATABoy: The highly scalable SATABoy enables energy efficient
storage of large amounts of information online
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SASBoy: Just released, Fibre Channel or
iSCSI connectivity
Archiving
Built upon our award-winning
storage arrays, Nexsan archiving solutions benefit from the same energy saving
technologies like AutoMAID.
- Assureon: An intelligent and
secure archive appliance, Assureon offers storage for long term retention
and management of fixed content information
AutoMAID™
Energy Saving Technology
Nexsan's
evolutionary AutoMAID (Automatic Massive Array of Idle Disks) energy saving
technology transparently places disk drives into an idle state to vastly reduce
power and cooling costs. AutoMAID delivers the cost-effecdtive benefits of MAID
2.0 without the limitations of slow access times and special host software.
AutoMAID is granular to an
individual drive or RAID set and offers multiple levels of energy savings.
AutoMAID is user selectable enabling users to determine the right level of
response time performance to energy savings. AutoMAID is the first MAID 2.0
architecture that supports VTL, full file format D2D and standard high
performance RAID implementations.
Key Points
- AutoMAID reduces power and
cooling costs
- Nexsan’s AutoMAID delivers
the benefits of MAID without the limitations
- Available on Nexsan Assureon,
SATABoy, SATABeast, and SATABeast Xi
AutoMAID Defined
- AutoMAID automatically
reduces power consumption and heat generation on idle drives
- Trade-off between response
times and power savings are user configurable
- AutoMAID behavior happens
automatically and transparently to host - no software changes required
- Typical configuration
settings:
- Level 1: Heads
Unloaded
- 15% to 20% savings
- Sub-second recovery time
- Level 2: Heads
Unloaded, slows to 4000 RPM
- 35% to 45% savings
- 15 second recovery time
- Level 3: Stops
spinning (sleep mode; powered on)
- 60% to 70% savings
- 30 to 45 second recovery time
AutoMAID Safety Features
- In maximum power saving
mode, drive spin up is sequenced to reduce power surges
- Drives automatically wake up
for periodic surface scan to ensure data integrity (user configurable)
- AutoMAID has no impact on
performance if left on in data-intensive server applications
- Only two simple
configuration settings - "timeout" and "power savings desired"