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Highest Performance End-to-End Fibre Controllers

The X4 comes in a 3U 16-bay chassis powered by dual 4Gb controllers and (12) 4Gb channels for maximum bandwidth. With extraordinary scalability and high throughput, your demands for capacity and performance can be easily fulfilled. The X4 comes in a backplane-based enclosure with redundant, hot-swappable component pairs. Operation statuses are constantly available via comprehensive interfaces such as LCD screen, firmware utility, or across the network via telnet console and browser. Drive expansion is easily achieved through dual-loop extension to X4 SBODs (JBODs with switching technology) by converting two of the FC channels to drive mode.

X4 Technical Specifications

Key Features

Extreme high performance, scalability and connectivity

4Gb Fibre Channel drives offer dual-looping capabilities and systems can be combined to support massive application performance in a true end-to-end 4Gb Fibre Channel storage solution.

Single or Dual Controller Options

The X4’s high-availability dual controller provides fault-tolerant components, ease of capacity expansion, and failover capabilities to ensure business continuity. The single controller version offers capacity with performance-oriented storage, with affordable hardware and scalability.

Key Features:

3U 16-bay chassis
Dual active 4Gb controllers
Maximum of 4GB of cache
RAID levels 0, 1 (0+1), 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60
Maximum expansion of (224) 4Gb or 2Gb FC drives up to 13 JBODs
3 spare disk types: dedicated, global, enclosure-specific
Instant array availability
Stripe size and caching mode configurable per logical drive
Online array expansion by adding drives or copying & replacing drives
Online disk cloning

High Availability

Active-active redundancy
Hot-swap mechanisms
Component redundancy
Dedicated sync. cache channels
Intelligent reactive & preventive mechanisms
Automated cache flush
Automated Media Scan
Auto rebuild on hot spares
Automated caching mode switch

Advanced RAID Features

RAID levels 0, 1 (0+1), 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60
RAID Parity regeneration
64-bit LBA support
3 spare disk types: dedicated, global, enclosure-specific
Instant array availability
Stripe size and caching mode configurable per logical drive
Online array expansion by adding drives or copying & replacing drives
Online disk cloning

Management

Browser-based manager
Java-based manager
LCD keypad panel
Terminal console via RS-232

Configurations

4 host + 2 drive channels (112 HDD)
2 host + 4 drive channels (224 HDD)
4G or 2G FC disk drives (loop speed configurable)

Expansion

Loop switched w/ access fairness
SES monitoring via in-band connection
Maximum up to 224 disks

Operating System Compatibility:

All standard Windows, Linux, and UNIX operating systems.

Application Uses:

High performance computing
Database applications
Video streaming
Datacenter applications
Hot-site operations
eCommerce

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