The W-300 is our fastest and most expandable production unit and features a dual SAS port expander 3U chassis with 16 drive slots. This model features a pair of Intel Xeon L5410 processors with 1333MHz FSB and a premium LSI SAS RAID engine featuring 1GB of DDR2-667MHz ECC battery backed cache.

Upgrade options include the addition of up to 4 additional RAID controllers offering enormous expansion possibilities and parallel RAID processing. Each RAID controller will support up to 8 JBODS (either J-316 or J-224) giving a maximum expansion of 960 drives using 2.5" drives and 640 drives using 3.5" drives. Other upgrade options include 4,6,8,10x1GbE or 1,2 ports of 10GbE. The expansion options have been carefully engineered to offer dual fault-tolerant and load-balanced pathways (essentially a SAS loop) so that JBODs can be added or replaced in a hot-plug manner without disturbing production. This model benchmarks at over 700MB/s with 1GbE connections and over 800MB/s with 10GbE connections. We are also now proud to offer a SSD option here using the Intel X-25-E SSD drive. This cost effective SSD offers 3600IOPS of random 4K write performance (the usual weak point of SSD) while saving a significant amount of power. For those users with workloads that tax even these super fast CPUs we support the upgrading to faster Xeons (E5462) with a 1600MHz FSB to push the performance envelope even further.

Bundles include;

Storage Appliance plus Hard Drives
3 yr Coverage on both
Overnight advance replacement policy
Array configured and burnt-in to customer specs for 72hrs

#	Storage Array	Drive Model	Drive Count	RAW Capacity	$/GB	Price $ US
1	W-300	1000GB SATAII	16	~16 TB	$1.08	$17,200
2	W-300	SAS 15K	16	~7.2 TB	$3.33	$24,000
3	W-300	32GB SSD	16	~512 GB	$41.72	$21,000
4	W-300 + 1JBOD	1000GB SATAII	32	~32TB	$0.81	$25,900
5	W-300 + 7JBOD	1000GB SATAII	128	~128TB	$0.61	$78,000

Hardware Platform Details

3U 16 hot swappable bays
Redundant Cooling
N+1 Redundant Power
Hot-swappable 850W AC power
19" W x 27" D x 5.25" H

Performance Details

IOmeter Results; *

> 700MB/s Sequential Read

> 300MB/s Sequential Write

~30,000 IO/s Sequential Read

~32,000 IO/s Sequential Write

W Series feature:

Available with or without drives
Certified with Seagate Barracuda ES SATAII Enterprise Drives
Certified with Seagate Cheetah 15K5 Enterprise SAS Drives
Certified with Intel X-25-E Enterprise Grade SSD
3 Year Warranty
3 Year Support
Built with Wasabi Storage Builder for iSCSI™ Enterprise Edition
Built on Wasabi Certified NetBSD™
Flash-Based OS volume
Aggressive iSCSI volume block cache (4GB ECC FB-DIMM 800MHz)
2x 1GbE Ports (upgradable to 4, 6, 8, 10)
Optional 10Gb TOE (upgradable to 2,3,4 ports; choose fiber or copper)
Hardware SAS RAID 0,1,10,5,50,6,60
1GB ECC DDR2 667 Hardware RAID write cache per controller
SAS Dual Redundant Pathways with Load Balancing and Failover
JBOD expansion of 8 JBODs per RAID controller
Storage Virtualization Layer RAID 0,1,5
Snapshots
Thin Provisioning
On Line Capacity Expansion
NAS Server
Supports IETF iSCSI RFC, draft 20
Compatible with all iSCSI Draft 20-compliant initiators
Compatible with Open iSCSI, Cisco, UNH, and Microsoft software initiators
Compatible with all major hardware initiators and offload cards
VMware ESX Certified, Citrix XenServer Compatible
OS Independent
Error recovery level 0, 1 and 2 (ERL0,1,2)
CHAP authentication
Password-protected web-based GUI management
Remote console option
Syslog and/or Email event notification
Fully protected, performance-optimized virtual memory system
TCP/IP optimizations such as zero-copy and checksum offload
MCS (Multiple Connections per Session)
MPIO (Multi Path IO)
MS cluster ready and tested
Supports 200 sessions and 64 LUNS

* Iometer testing was done with optional networking ports added

Low cost,
high performance, simple options,
no hidden costs, simple operation;

What else could you want from storage?