The explosion in digital content creation continues unabated. This trend is fueled by advances in digital video production, medical screening, CCTV surveillance, disk to disk backup and new requirements for legislation compliance.

In response to these trends, the demand for storage systems capable of managing and maintaining these vast amounts of business critical data continues to accelerate. OEMs and Solution Integrators now require ever more sophisticated systems that feature the performance, capacity and data availability characteristics necessary to administer these expanding data environments.

The F5404E has been engineered to address these market demands. Merging the 4835 mass storage and 5000 series RAID families, the F5404E combines 4Gb Fibre Channel RAID connectivity with Serial ATA II (SATA) disk drives, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) expansion technology and the advanced StorViewTM management software.

• High Performance and Availability

There is no single point of failure with two RAID controllers per chassis and host-based dynamic multi-pathing that maintain continuous access to application data.

• Power Savings and Cooling

The F5404E has the lowest power consumption (50% more TB/KW) and highest density (33% more TB/Sq ft) of any nearline storage RAID system on the market. The innovative cooling technology ensures drives maintain their ambient temperature at all times, thus ensuring a long storage life.

• Minimal Disruption and Downtime for Upgrades

F5404E supports flexible configurations and will accommodate drives as they increase in capacity. Components are hot-swappable and backwards compatible reducing the need for major migrations and forklift upgrades