Xyratex Delivers Industry's First 8Gb/s Fiber Channel RAID Array

Today, Xyratex, one of the leading providers of enterprise-class data storage subsystems and storage process technology, announced its fastest-ever array, designed by adding an 8Gb/s Fiber Channel (FC) connection along with the new RAID 6 capabilities. The significant performance and data protection enhancements have been made available for the company's OneStor Extensible Storage Platform (ESP) family, which is basically a modular, standards-based architecture designed to drive diverse workloads with extreme storage density.

 

“OEMs must be able to respond quickly to rapidly expanding market demands, including the need for adaptability and flexibility in their storage systems. The Xyratex OneStor family delivers a proven formula for success by giving OEMs and Solution Integrators the ability to utilize a full family of solutions to create competitive, efficient and leading edge storage systems,” said Lisa Hart, vice president of worldwide marketing, Xyratex. “This announcement allows our customers to leverage their previous investment in OneStor and provide data protection, performance and flexibility.”

 

Xyratex often works with companies such as Compellent, Data Domain, Dell and IBM, which it supplies with hard disk drives in drive array enclosures for their storage array products. The most recent announcement comes to introduce a third member to the company's OneStor family, which now includes the new SP1212s, a 2U, 12-drive storage system, and the IOPS-optimized SP1224s and the capacity-optimized SP1424s family. The new SP1212s is basically a 2U product that comes with 12 SAS or SATA drives and a 8Gb/s Fiber channel controller, which makes the SP1212s to further improve the modular flexibility already offered by the Xyratex OneStor family.

 

In addition, the company also announced the new F6500E RAID controller, which comes with support for RAID 6, enabling protection against a double drive failure, up to 512 snapshots, redundant hot-swappable components, and dual-ported SAS and SATA drives.