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NexSAN SASBeast

Enterprise Class SAS Storage for the Broadest Range of Requirements

High speed – blazing SAS IOPS and read/write throughput performance; High density – 42 drive bays in only 4U providing up to 25.2TB of SAS capacity; Flexible – combine SAS and SATA drives in the same chassis for separate storage tiers; Flexible – combine SAS and SATA drives in the same chassis for separate storage tiers; Reliable – enterprise-class quality with fully redundant components Energy Efficiency – Nexsan's AutoMAID™ ultra green technology delivering up to 60% in energy savings; Go Green

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SASBeast Overview 2 big needs. 1 small solution. Conquer transaction performance and high capacity in the same storage system. Whether you need high performance (for Exchange) or high capacity (for disk to disk backup, file servers or storing large amounts of content), SASBeast provides the speed and capacity to meet the broadest range of storage requirements. SASBeast delivers the industry’s best value by combining enterprise SAS performance with the density, reliability, affordability and energy efficiency Nexsan is known for.

Built for Performance... Blazing SAS IOPS and read/write throughput performance make SASBeast the perfect choice for transactional and/or database intensive applications (Exchange, SQL, Oracle, etc.). SASBeast’s high availability architecture features full redundancy across all active components and delivers industry leading reliability for enterprise class environments.

And Capacity... Innovatively engineered to reliably mix SAS and SATA disks in the same SASBeast chassis, the user is provided separate storage tiers for different applications. Use the SAS storage tier for performance intensive applications and the SATA storage tier for capacity intensive applications. Nexsan is changing the rules of storage by allowing the user to meet the broadest range of storage requirements in a single chassis.

Unprecedented Energy Savings SASBeast exclusively features the ground breaking energy saving benefits of AutoMAID™ technology which places disks in an idle state during inactivity while providing near-instantaneous access to data when needed. AutoMAID uniquely delivers the benefits of green without the limitations.

SASBeast Advanced Features Enterprise class storage array built around the latest high-performance SAS disk drives.   Exceptional IOPS and throughput performance   All active components (RAID controllers, fans, power supplies and drives) are redundant and individually hot-swappable.   Highest density per rack inch – 42 drive bays in only 4U – up to 18.9TB of SAS capacity   Up to 4 RAID engines and 4GB battery protected cache when using dual controllers   Supports hardware RAID 0, 1, 1+0, 4, 5 and 6 including global hot spares   Supports multiple RAID sets and multiple volumes per RAID set.   Supports up to 254 LUNS per controller Integrated Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity for flexible implementation   Completely OS independent. No special software drivers required   Horizontal mid-plane design promotes superior airflow and alleviates insertion stress points   Anti-accumulative rotational vibration design maximizes drive reliability   Embedded web-browser GUI over 10/100/1000 port, supports email alerts and SNMP traps   WorldView™ provides ability to manage and configure multiple Nexsan units from a single GUI   Industry leading energy effeciency with AutoMAID™ technology

AutoMAID™ Energy Saving Technology

Nexsan's evolutionary AutoMAID (Automatic Massive Array of Idle Disks) energy saving technology transparently places disk drives into an idle state to vastly reduce power and cooling costs. AutoMAID delivers the cost-effecdtive benefits of MAID 2.0 without the limitations of slow access times and special host software.

AutoMAID is granular to an individual drive or RAID set and offers multiple levels of energy savings. AutoMAID is user selectable enabling users to determine the right level of response time performance to energy savings. AutoMAID is the first MAID 2.0 architecture that supports VTL, full file format D2D and standard high performance RAID implementations.

Key Points

• AutoMAID reduces power and cooling costs
• Nexsan’s AutoMAID delivers the benefits of MAID without the limitations
• Available on Nexsan Assureon, SATABoy, SATABeast, and SATABeast Xi

AutoMAID Defined

• AutoMAID automatically reduces power consumption and heat generation on idle drives
• Trade-off between response times and power savings are user configurable
• AutoMAID behavior happens automatically and transparently to host – no software changes required
• Typical configuration settings:
  • Level 1: Heads Unloaded
    • 15% to 20% savings
    • Sub-second recovery time
  • Level 2: Heads Unloaded, slows to 4000 RPM
    • 35% to 45% savings
    • 15 second recovery time
  • Level 3: Stops spinning (sleep mode; powered on)
    • 60% to 70% savings
    • 30 to 45 second recovery time

AutoMAID Safety Features

• In maximum power saving mode, drive spin up is sequenced to reduce power surges
• Drives automatically wake up for periodic surface scan to ensure data integrity (user configurable)
• AutoMAID has no impact on performance if left on in data-intensive server applications
• Only two simple configuration settings – "timeout" and "power savings desired"

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