Photo Release - Infortrend Introduces Flexible, Powerful Fibre-To-Fibre Raid Head

Santa Clara, CA - RAID storage expert Infortrend recently announced two new EonStor Fibre-to-Fibre RAID controllers, the EonStor (ES) FF-R4030 redundant controller and the FF-S4030 single controller systems. For high performance and massive storage expansion, the RAID heads feature a 4Gigabit Fibre Channel (4G-FC) host interface that doubles bandwidth over the previous 2G-FC interface and they support up to 272 drives across multiple expansion channels. These robust controllers provide secure yet cost-effective online storage for organizations managing high volumes of data transactions in industries such as banking, telecommunications, and insurance. Users have the flexibility to choose high-performance 4G-FC SBOD (Switched Bunch of Disks) expansion using dual FC loops and cost-efficient Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks) expansion via the systems' two SAS SFF-8470 wide ports.

"The EonStor FF-R4030 and S4030 controller heads deliver high performance I/O processing and the ultimate RAID protection for exceptional data availability in data-intensive storage environments," said Quote Lin, Senior Marketing Director of Infortrend Technology Inc. "Their modular design minimizes maintenance time and increases scalability for demanding, high capacity SAN applications."

EonStor FF-R4030 and FF-S4030 Highlights

• 1U, Fibre-to-Fibre, redundant or single RAID controller head
• Host channels
• 8 on the redundant controller model
• 4 on the single controller model
• Drive channels
• 4 on the redundant controller model (in a dual loop)
• 2 on the single controller model
• 2 SAS connectors (drive channel)
• Massive expansion capability with support for up to 272 drives
  • 6 4G-FC I/O channels connect to application servers or up to 16 EonStor F16F SBODs
  • 2 additional SAS SFF-8470 wide ports for attaching up to 3 EonStor S16S-J1000-R/S JBODs for data storage expansion

SOURCE: Infortrend