RAID has released its Magellan 60-tiered disk solution, which will begin to ship in volume on February 1, 2007. The Magellan series supports single or dual 4Gbit FC or 3Gbit SAS controllers with up to 60 SAS and/or SATA disk drives to balance performance and latency requirements for a very wide variety of applications, including replication and disaster recovery environments, the company said.
Currently, RAID has qualified 36, 73, and 146GB 15k SAS drives and plans on finalising the qualification of 300GB 15k SAS by the end of the first quarter. In addition, the systems support 250, 300, 400, 500, and 750GB SATA-2 disk drives. Drives can be configured to balance performance with capacity and cost points which will give users some of the best flexibility ever delivered in a cost effective storage system that can be configured to have no single point of failure, the company added.
"By scaling the system to up to 60 drives today and with our intent of reaching over 100 spindles by the end of the year, we have achieved to deliver a flexible product to the market," Robert Picardi, Chief Operating Officer of RAID Incorporated said.
"Development efforts are already beginning to look at 8Gbit FC and 6Gbit SAS and SATA technologies so we are confident that this product, similar to our X-class and Falcon series, will ensure long term investment and upgradeability. Users now have a choice to move away from the limitations of SCSI-based storage systems. Customers who have invested in a Fibre Channel backbone can connect the Magellan into any standard infrastructure without the worries of back end FC loop related issues while moving to a serial disk topology," stated Tad Gambiza, Chief Engineer for RAID.
Magellan is available with RAID's StorageWatch managed services package and offers compact 2U / 12 disk expansion systems up to 60 total disks. Multiple Magellan systems can also be used together to achieve larger capacity and for software- and hardware-based replication and disaster recovery initiatives, the company said.
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