High Performance SAN Storage
The Colossus is a high-performance, energy-efficient, tiered storage solution, ideal for use in expanding data environments. It serves as the ideal solution for disk-to-disk backup, archive, and other storage-intensive applications. The Colossus provides greater storage density (in terms of GB per rack unit) than any other storage product currently available. With more than 2x the storage capacity, up to 2x the throughput, and data transfer rates up to 100 MB/s (~15%) faster than the nearest competitor, the iXsystems Colossus addresses and exceeds the increasing demand for storage systems capable of managing and maintaining vast amounts of business-critical data.
Features of the iXsystems Colossus SAN RAID Storage Device include the following:
- Throughput: Two 4Gb Fiber hosts per controller for up to 16Gb continuous transfer.
- Performance: Data Transfer Rates of up to 400 MB/s per controller and 800 MB/s full duplex.
- Storage Capacity: 48 SATA-II drive bays, ensures up to 48 TB of storage in only 4U of rack space.
- Scalability: JBOD expansion allows an additional 48 hard drives of storage capacity to be added to the unit. That's 96 drives, managed and operated through one RAID unit.
- Density: Up to 96TB in 8U of Rack space = 12TB per rack unit.
- Manageability: Web-based management utility provides the ability to discover, monitor, configure, and report on multiple arrays from any existing Internet connection.
- Fault Tolerance/Redundancy: *True* Dual Active-Active RAID Controllers = greater uptime and system reliability.
- On-line RAID Volume & LUN Expansion: Drives can be added to grow existing RAID volumes on the fly, without any downtime. LUN sizes can also be changed without taking the system out of production.
- RAID6 Capable: Greater reliability through additional parity drive = far lower chance of data loss during a RAID rebuild.
- Warranty: 3 Years of advance-exchange overnight cross-ship parts replacement (hard drives included); NBD & 24x7 On-Site Service also available.
iXsystems Colossus RAID and JBOD units are currently available directly from iXsystems and its Authorized Value Added Reseller Partners. Industry-leading pricing will vary based on the configuration and storage capacity needed.
4G FC, point-to-point, loop and fabric (switched) topologies
Supported Operating Platforms: Windows 2003 (IA32, EM64T); RedHat Linux AS3/AS4 (IA32, EM64T); SuSE Linux 9/10 (IA32, EM64T)
Supported Hosts: 256, 512 LUNs, LUN Masking, >2TB LUNs
Total Capacity per Unit: 48TB
(1 maximum), SAS connected, single and dual IO Module configurations
Total Expansion Capacity: 72TB, 512MB and 1G Cache per controller (selectable by volume ? read, adaptive read-ahead, write through, write-back), battery backup
Disk Drives
Seagate SATA (7.2K/750G), Hitachi SATA (7.2K/1TB)
Interface Types: SATA-II (3GB/s), NCQ , dedicated bandwidth to each drive
Max Drives per Enclosure: 48, 512 Logical Drives/system, automatic bad sector assignment
RAID Controllers
2 (dual - HA)
RAID Levels Supported: Up to 96 disk arrays with independent RAID level 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, and 50 support, selectable strip sizes (64K, 128K, and 256K), partial strip read/write
RAID Protection Features: Background initialization, background parity checking and automatic drive rebuild with redundant RAID arrays
Software: StorView, StorView Global, StorView Path Manager
Interfaces Supported: Ethernet (out-of-band), FC host based (in-band)
Hot Swappable Components: PSU/cooling modules, disk drives, RAID controllers
Additional Reliability Features: StorView Path Manager for Windows and StorView Path Manager for Linux - host based dynamic multi-path failover
Height: 175mm (6.89?) 4 EIA Units
Width: 482mm (19?) (1EC Rack Compliant)
Depth: 810mm (31.9?) 1000mm depth rack required
Weight: 74.8Kg (165 lbs) with drives
Service Clearance: 559mm (22?) shelf pull-out
Operational Altitude: 2,133m (7,000 ft)
Non-operational Altitude: 12,192m (40,000 ft)
Voltage: 100-240VAC 5.0A maximum per input
Frequency: 60/50 Hz, single-phase
Power Consumption: 800W typical
Temperature Range Operating: 5º to 35ºC (41º F to 95º F)
Humidity Operating: 10% to 80% (non condensing)
Operational Shock: 5g 10ms ½ Sine
Operational Vibration: Random 0.21grms 5-500Hz
Non-operational Shock: 30g 10ms ½ Sine
Non-operational Vibration: Random 1.04 grms 2-200Hz
Relocation Vibration: Swept Sine 0.9g 2-200Hz
Acoustics: <58 dB LpA @20°C
CCC, CE, UL, cUL, RoHS (R5)
Microsoft WHQL, Microsoft RAID System Submission ? MPIO 2-Node Cluster
Enclosures with drives: Up to 3 years
Please contact iXsystems for detailed warranty information.
