Razor II
8Gb FC or 6Gb SAS Host with 2.5” SAS Drives
1U (12) 2.5” Drive Enclosures
With 8Gb Fibre Channel host interfaces, the Razor II solution offers unprecedented space efficiency and performance, available in single or dual controller and expandable in 1U increments for a total of 48 6Gb SAS drives.
The Razor II features unprecedented space efficiency by providing all advanced RAID functions in a 1U enclosure. The Razor’s unique design allows twice the number of spindles within the same footprint, and is ideal for I/O-intensive applications.
Ideal Uses
- Metadata
- Space Constraints
- Small Power Consumption
- Cockpits, Tanks, Submarines
- Civilian Applications
Key Specifications
- Dual Active Hot-swappable Controller -( 4GB cache 2U form factor)
- RAID Levels 0, 1(0+1),3, 5, 6,10, 30, 50, 60
- Supported Drive Type -SAS
- Max Drives 48 drives in 1U 12 2.5'' drives
- Host/Drive Connections Host Interface (4) 8Gbps FC SFP Drive Interface 12 SAS HDD via a passive backplane Drive-side expansion via SAS multi-lane SFF-8088 per controller
- Management Software Embedded RAIDWatch, or JAVA-based SANWatch Terminal via RS-232C Telnet / SSH LCD keypad panel Event notification methods: Email/Fax/LAN broadcast/SNMP traps/SMS/MSN
- OS Support Windows Server 2003/2008, 2008 R2 (including Hyper-V) Sun Solaris Red Hat Linux Enterprise SuSE Linux Enterprise VMware MAC OSX Sun Solaris
- Fans and Power Supply - Dual redundant, hot-swappable
Highlights
- Full-featured RAID in a Compact 1U Chassis using SAS drive
- 2.5-inch Drives Are Simply Smaller
- Higher IOPS in Less than half of space
- Lower Total Cost of Ownership
- 45% Less Power Consumption and Heat Generation
Storage Watch
Available with RAID Inc.’s patent-pending 24/7 Pro-active Monitoring and Maintenance Package