Nexsan Technologies SATABeast Xi SATA RAID SAN - 4U / 42 Bay / iSCSI & Fibre Channel for Apple Xserve and Mac Pro Systems

Nexsan SATABeast Xi - High Density Storage For Apple Xserve and Mac Pro Systems

- High density storage - up to 42 TB in only 4U

- Built for Xserve and Mac Pro systems

- Revolutionary AutoMAID energy saving technology greatly reduces power consumption and operating costs

- Full Enterprise class performance, reliability and management

- Dual function Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity with wire-speed performance

- Flexible, scalable and completely OS independent. Supports a broad range of storage infrastructures.

• Enterprise class storage array built around the latest high-capacity SATA disk drives
• High performance over 800 MB/s sustained throughput
• Reduced energy consumption and costs through AutoMAID™ technology
• All active components are redundant and individually hot-swappable
• High density per rack inch
• Supports RAID 0, 1, 1+0, 4, 5 and 6
• WorldView™ - Provides ability to manage and configure multiple Nexsan units from a single GUI
• Anti-Accumulative Rotational Vibration design enables maximum drive reliability.
• Supports multiple RAID sets and multiple volumes per set
• Horizontal midplane design promotes superior airflow and alleviates insertion stress points
• Integrated Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity for flexible implementation
• Completely OS independent. No special software drivers or server-based management applications required.
• SATABeast Xi delivers access to data up to 500 times faster than tape libraries and 20x faster than other MAID systems.
• Embedded web-browsable GUI over 10/100/1000 port, supports email alerts and SNMP traps
• Up to 2GB cache per controller
• Supports up to 256 LUNS per controller

With SATABeast Xi, Nexsan engineers have architected the industry's most complete and cost-effective high capacity storage system. SATABeast Xi's advanced mechanical design provides superior cooling for optimal thermal operation, reduces drive vibration and delivers outstanding energy efficiency in an extreme density (42 drives in 4U high) form factor. SATABeast's unique design extends individual drive life and provides TCO savings year over year.

SATABeast Xi employs Nexsan's revolutionary AutoMAID™ energy saving technology. AutoMAID transparently places disk drives in an idle state reducing power consumption and operational costs. AutoMAID delivers the cost-saving benefits of MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks) without the limitations of slow access times and special host software. Nexsan's AutoMAID is granular to an individual drive or RAID set and enables users to determine the level of access speed and energy savings desired. AutoMAID is the first MAID 2.0 architecture that supports VTL (Virtual Tape Libraries), full file format D2D and standard RAID implementations.

SATABeast Xi performs continuous background integrity scans to ensure drive health and data accessibility. Each controller features full cache coherency to maintain data integrity even in the event of a power loss.

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