The Colossus houses up to 48 SATA drives in only 4U of rack space, providing up to 48 TB of storage. Potential capacity is up to 96 drives, 96TB with JBOD Expansion.
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.
- 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.
External Interface:
- 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
Expansion Chassis:
- (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
Disk Drives Supported:
- 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
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
System Management
- Software: StorView, StorView Global, StorView Path Manager
- Interfaces Supported: Ethernet (out-of-band), FC host based (in-band)
System Availability
- 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
Dimensions
- 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
Altitude, Power and Temperatures
- 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)
Shock and Vibration
- 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
Approvals
- CCC, CE, UL, cUL, RoHS (R5)
- Microsoft WHQL, Microsoft RAID System Submission ? MPIO 2-Node Cluster
Warranty Information
Enclosures with drives: Up to 3 years
Please contact iXsystems for detailed warranty information.
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