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Xanadu™ 260

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Affordable High Performance Storage Solution for the Data Center

The Xanadu 260 is a 4U 60 3.5” & 2.5" drive storage solution utilizing the latest 6G SAS architecture that can sustain 4Gbps and 40,000 IOPs and scale up to 180 TB. Customers have the option of scaling performance and capacity in this unique 4U solution to their individual needs.

Ten Xanadu 260s can fit into an industry standard 42U rack which can provide up to 40Gbps and 1.8PB of capacity. Or customers can choose to add 2 4U 60-drives Disk Enclosures to an existing Xanadu 260 RAID system.

The 5-Tray front mounted design is unique in the industry which provides for easy drive replacement and maintenance; users can just easily open a single drawer and replace or add any drive without disrupting the performance of the neighboring drives.

Ideal Uses

    • Data Center
    • 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, 3, 5, 6, 10
    • Supported Drive Type SAS, NearLine SAS, SED SAS, SSD
    • Drives 60 drives in 4U 3.5'' & 2.5" drives
    • Host/Drive Connections
      • Host Interface
      • (8) 6Gb SAS ports
      • (4) 6Gb SAS + (8) 8Gb FC ports
      • (4) 6Gb SAS + (8) 1Gb iSCSI ports
      • (4) 6Gb SAS + (4) 10Gb iSCSI ports
      • Drive Interface
      • (2) 6Gb SAS drive ports
    • Storage Partitions Up to 128
    • Management Software in Linux, Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX
    • Fans and Power Supply Dual redundant, hot-swappable

Highlights

    • Scale performance and capacity in 4U increments
    • Powerful storage management software for Linux, Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX
    • Mixed host interfaces in FC,1G iSCSI, 10G iSCSI and SAS
    • Full Disk Encryption with local key management
    • Disks can be intermixed including SAS, NL SAS, SED drives
    • Data Assurance leads to greater fault isolation and increases data integrity across the entire Xanadu storage systems
    • Maximum burst I/O rate from cache 200,000 I/Os per second
    • Maximum sustained I/O rate from drives 40,000 I/Os per second
    • Maximum sustained transfer rate from drives 4,000MB/s

Storage Watch

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