KEY BENEFITS
With SATABeast, Nexsan engineers have architected the industry’s most
complete and cost-effective high capacity storage system. SATABeast’s
advanced mechanical design provides superior cooling for optimal thermal
operation, reduces drive vibration and delivers outstanding energy efficiency
in an extreme density (42 drives in 4U high) form factor. SATABeast’s
unique design extends individual drive life and provides TCO savings year
over year.
Nexsan’s award-winning Performance SATA™ RAID controller design
provides extremely high throughput performance across 42 spindles that
can be segmented into multiple RAID sets or a single large storage pool.
LUN Mapping allows users to easily configure the massive disk capacity for
dozens of servers or one.
SATABeast employs Nexsan’s revolutionary AutoMAID™ energy saving
technology. AutoMAID transparently places SATABeast disk drives in an
idle state reducing power consumption and operational costs. AutoMAID
delivers the cost-saving benefits of MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks)
without the limitations of slow access times and special host software.
Nexsan’s AutoMAID is granular to an individual drive or RAID set and
enables users to determine the level of access speed and energy savings
desired. AutoMAID is the first MAID architecture that supports VTL (Virtual
Tape Libraries), full file format D2D and standard RAID implementations.
SATABeast performs continuous background integrity scans to ensure drive
health and data accessibility. Each controller features full cache coherency
to maintain data integrity even in the event of a power loss.
All individual SATABeast components are fully redundant and hot
swappable. This advanced design provides increased ROI by eliminating the need to replace an entire multi-drive blade should a single drive fail.
SATABeast’s NexScan management interface is built into the SATABeast
controller, alleviating the need to have a separate server or application
manage the storage array. This sophisticated management utility monitors
and reports the status of all subsystems over a 10/100/1000-network port.
Included in NexScan are Tele-Guard™, Nexsan’s phone-home feature for
user notification of errors or prediction of error, and WorldView, our multibox
management feature.
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