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At Simplir we try to keep hard disk drives out of the picture as much as possible. While solid state memory is ideal, it has a high cost to storage space ratio. With that in mind, low cost, bulk storage is critical for many applications.

The Problem In the past, ISP servers were commonly configured with a separate hard drive on each server. This approach adds a point of failure on each of those machines--a highly mechanical point of failure. An additional problem presents itself with capacity. A drive on one machine might be full while there is available capacity on other servers.

The Solution The Simplir™ approach is to combine all of those disks into a single, faster, fault tolerant RAID array that can be shared across the network. Use all of your disk space, and simplify data management and backup with a Simplir SAN or NAS.

IDE RAID1 Blade Options

  • All configuations hot swappable
  • Redundant disk storage, up to 80 GBytes in a single slot
  • Front panel hot swap for replacement of a failed disk drive
  • Automatic rebuild of a new disk drive

 

Drive Capacity

Simplir uses drives by Hitachi and IBM

IDE

  • 40GB
  • 80 GB
SCSI RAID5 SAN Options

Provide high IO throughput for demanding applications. Once you are serving thousands of e-mail users, hundreds of thousands of web page views a day, or a large office of workstations you will find SCSI IO invaluable.

Choose the economical Ultra 160 for excellent performance in most applications

 

Or choose Fiber Channel for extreme jobs, at a data rate of 320 MB/sec.

 

The speed of both drive arrays is further enhanced by the parallel writing features of RAID 5. These Drives are hot-swappable and array integrity is automatically recreated upon replacement of a failed drive.

 

Requires a minimum of four CORE slots.

Drive Capacity

Simplir uses SCSI drives by Hitachi and IBM

Ultra160

  • 36 GB
  • 73 GB

Fiber Channel 320

  • 36 GB
  • 73 GB
  • 146 GB