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Falcon V 3U 16-Bay

mage of the Falcon V 16-bay storage system

 

3U (16) 3.5” Drive Enclosures

The Falcon V 3U 16-bay is a Fibre Channel (FC) + iSCISI host storage system combining 8Gb/s FC + 1Gb/s iSCSI host connectivity and 6Gb/s SAS drive support. Accomodating 16 SAS or SATA drives,Falcon V series enables SMBs to deploy high-availability FC SANs delivering outstanding price-performance. The enterprise-class data protection and exceptional performance of RAID Inc's Falcon series are ideal for mission-critical environments.

Green Design

    • Energy efficient power supplies
    • Dynamic cooling
    • Intelligent multi-level drive spin-down

Ideal Uses

    • Mission-critical environment
    • All high-bandwidth applications
    • Parallel file systems
    • Streaming video
    • Transactional workload
    • Data warehousing
    • Business-critical applications

Key Specifications

    • Dual Active Hot-swappable Controller -( 4GB cache 4U form factor)
    • RAID Levels - 0, 1(1+1), 3, 5, 6, 10, 30,50, 60
    • Supported Drive Type -15K SAS, 7.2K NearLine SAS, SATA
    • Max Drives -112 drives
    • Host/Drive Connections
Host Interface
(8) 8Gb FC ports + (2) 1Gb iSCSI ports
Drive Interface
(2) 6Gb SAS drive ports
    • Storage Partitions - Up to 32 logical drives and 64 partitions per logical volume
    • Management Software - Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2 (including Hyper-V), Red Hat Enterprise, Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Sun Solaris, Mac OS X, VMware
    • Fans and Power Supply - Dual redundant, hot-swappable

Highlights

    • Reliability and Availability
Local and remote replication functionality enables quick data recovery after logical errors and physical errors
Redundant and hotswappable hardware components eliminate single point of failure
Multiple hardware RAID levels protect data against drive failure
CacheSafe technology protects cached data during a power outage
    • Performance
Leading performance supports demanding business applications
Hybrid host connectivity models offer cost-effective remote replication and SAN tiering
    • Scalability
Scale storage capacity (up to 104 drives) as needed through expansion enclosures
    • Management
User-friendly and intuitive StorageWatch interface allows for simple storage management

Storage Watch

Available with RAID Inc.’s patent-pending 24/7 Pro-active Monitoring and Maintenance Package