As the volume of data in today’s business environment increases, processing speed is no longer the only concern. The focus has expanded to include reliability, availability and serviceability as data center requirements and drive densities have exploded exponentially.

RS-1600-F4-SBD and extended RS-1602-F4-SBD replace traditional Fibre Channel – Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) architecture with an integrated advanced switching hub, dramatically improving data availability while reducing the effects of latency, especially in systems with high disk counts. This innovative 4G Switched Bunch of Disks (SBOD) solution offers substantially improved read/write performance levels, and uses embedded technology to create a high performance, point-to-point switched connection between the storage controller and the individual drives.

Highlights

• Point to point disk drive communications
• Bandwidth of up to 3.2 GB/s per enclosure
• Extended SES for advanced management features
• Reduced latency in large disk count systems
• Autonomous FC error monitoring of port management
• ANSI enclosure SES support for management & diagnostics
• Up to 8 non-blocking initiator connections
• Multi-path trunking doubles interconnect performance
• Drive LIP threshold management
• Trunking
• Zoning