RA-1602-1216-JBD 2Gb FC-SATA JBOD

Xyratex’s new FC to SATA JBOD enclosure provides high availability, high performance data storage to customers concerned with scalability in a budget conscious environment.

Innovative and Cost Effective

The RA-1602-1216-JBD is part of the Xyratex series of FC-SATA storage solutions designed to integrate Fibre Channel connectivity with cost-efficient SATA drive technology. Ideally suited for use under proprietary RAID controllers or NAS heads, the RA-1602-1216-JBD enables customers to leverage their existing Fibre Channel, SAN or NAS infrastructure at an attractive cost point.

Xyratex’s innovative JBOD design uses an advanced FC-SATA silicon storage router chip embedded in the bridge controller. This enables the controller to communicate with each disk individually, providing the customer with maximum configuration flexibility. The system is available in three configurations: single, dual active, and dual independent. On the single and dual active controller versions, throughput performance is sustained at 380MB/s; a simple switch reset moves the controller from dual active to dual independent mode, and increases throughput to 760MB/s.

Industry-Leading Enclosure

The RA-1602-1216-JBD offers 16TB of data storage capacity per enclosure, and features the same rigidity, electrical cooling and backplane technology found in Xyratex’s enterprise class, full fibre JBOD solutions. All components are hot swappable, and reliability is enhanced at the drive level by the use of a switching interposer card, allowing for dual pathing at the drive level. Enclosure management and service functionality are embedded in the system hardware, ensuring simple communication and error notification between enclosure and host.

As data demands increase and budgetary requirements tighten, the RA-1602-1216-JBD allows customers high-quality, cost-conscious scalability, and provides maximum return on investment. It is the ideal solution for secondary storage environments where reliability, flexibility and cost are of paramount concern.