SATABoy
14 TB – 3U 14 Drive SATA with iSCSI, 2GB FC support
 
 
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
 SATABoy provides organizations with exceptional performance and unparalleled storage flexibility in a compact package to meet real world business objectives. The highly scalable SATABoy features FC and iSCSI connectivity to enable cost-effective storage of large sets of information online, while its performance ensures faster response times for mission critical applications. SATABoy is equally capable of delivering high IOPS for transactional applications and sustaining maximum MB/s throughput for high bandwidth applications such as streaming media.
Energy Efficient Performance
SATABoy offers the energy saving benefits of Nexsan’s revolutionary AutoMAID™ technology. AutoMAID™ (Massive Array of Idle Disks) allows SATABoy to place its disk drives into an idle state to conserve energy yet provide near-instantaneous access to data. SATABoy’s unique combination of high performance with energy saving capabilities enables users to maximize the total return on their storage hardware investment.
Best in Class Performance
SATABoy incorporates advanced features such as dual RAID engines, a high performance cache mirroring ASIC, and active/active failover to deliver uncompromising availability and reliability, feature rich functionality, and high performance. With sustained throughput speeds of up to 370 MB/s per controller, SATABoy provides superior performance across all standard platforms and operating systems. SATABoy’s high performance and enormous capacity provides exceptional value that enhances all digital information storage applications, such as live on-line data, streaming media, tiered storage, broadcast/VOD and other business critical applications.
Flexible Connectivity
SATABoy gives users the flexibility to utilize FibreChannel or iSCSI connectivity or both simultaneously. Flexible, scalable and completely OS independent, SATABeast offers dual function FC and iSCSI connectivity with wire-speed throughput performance.
Key Features
SATABoy offers high performance storage system built on standard * cost efficient high capacity SATA disks. With integrated high availability features and OS independence, businesses can achieve interoperability and fault tolerance.

SATABoy offers integrated platform independent management interface, NexScan™  capable of managing multiple storage systems from a single location. NexScan™ presents the administrator the capabilities to monitor hardware and thermal statistics, performance statistics, event logs and volume status in real time.
 
 
UNIT FEATURES
  •  Up to 14 SATA drives in 3U form factor. Easily fits a standard 19”server rack.
  • Single or dual active/active RAID controllers
  • Dual 2Gb Fibre Channel SFP LC host and Dual iSCSI ports per controller
  • Optionally, Quad SCSI ports per controller
  • Auto-negotiating host speed
  • Up to 2GB cache per controller
  • Supports RAID 0, 1, 1+0, 4, 5, and 6
  • Multiple RAID sets supported on a single unit
  • Embedded web-browsable GUI over 10/100/1000 port, supports email alerts and SNMP traps
  • Hot pluggable drives, controllers, and power supplies
  •  Dynamic spare pooling and dedicated spares, array verification
  • Supports LUN masking
  • SNMP support
  • Battery backup
  • Two redundant 760 watt power supplies with tachometer-monitored blowers to provide maximum power and cooling.
 
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
 
       MODEL      SATABoy
       Form Factor     3U Rackmount
       RAID Controller      Single or Dual active
       RAID Levels     0, 1, 1+0, 4, 5, 6
       Cache Memory      Up to 2GB
       No. of Channels (Host)     2
       No. of Channels (Disk)     14
       Host Bus Interface     2GB FC or iSCSI
       Disk Bus Interface     SATA 3.0Gb/s
       Data Transfer Rate     Up to 370MB/Sec
       Backplane Board     SATA 3.0Gb/s
       Hot-Swappable Trays     fourteen (14) 1" Trays
       Hot-Swappable Power Supplies     Two (2) 400W / 286VA Fully redundant - Load sharing
       Cooling    Quad redundant blowers
      Power Requirement      400 watts
    4A @ 115VAC, 2A @ 230VAC
    Auto-switching, Auto-ranging
      Dimensions     5.25" H x 19" W x 20" D
      Weight      46 lbs w/o disk drives
       System Management      SNMP, Web GUI for remote management, Gigabit interface, WorldView, Tele-Phone