S2A6620

Extreme Storage Just Got Extremely Affordable

In today's environment of extreme data growth and flat budgets the use of cost-effective midrange storage is expanding in the data center. DataDirect Networks's S2A6620 lowers costs and simplifies infrastructure while maximizing application performance, scalability and uninterrupted data access.

The S2A6620 mid-range storage appliance with Realtime Adaptive Cache Technology (REACT) delivers balanced throughput and IOPs performance in the industry's highest density and energy efficient platform. Featuring up to 60 drives in just 4U of rack space and designed for mixed workloads the S2A6620 delivers up to 335,000 IOPS from its 12GB of mirrored, battery backed-up cache, and 2GB/s of sustained bandwidth for large file throughput. Scaling to 120 drives with the addition of a single 4U expansion module and the ability to combine SATA, SAS and SSD drives within a single appliance, the S2A6620 is a differentiated solution that is perfect for diverse workloads and a wide range of requirements.

Intermixing high-performance SSD and SAS drives with high-capacity SATA drives ensures that data resides on the drive technology that best meets its requirements and provides the flexibility to migrate drive technology along with varying application needs. The S2A6620's enclosure-level drive intermixing and exceptional per-drive performance reduces the number of drives needed to meet growing performance and capacity demands - lowering both acquisition and operational costs.

SATAssure enables the S2A6620 appliance to manage large pools of SATA storage with enterprise-class performance, reliability and data integrity. When most storage systems detect data corruption on a drive, they immediately fail it and begin a rebuild. While the rebuild operation is in process those systems experience degraded performance. With today's large capacity SATA drives, the rebuild process can take hours to complete and can occur frequently. SATAssure reduces the requirement to fail and rebuild entire drives by validating the integrity of data on every read operation - detecting and correcting corruption that would initiate a drive rebuild in other storage systems. SATAssure repairs the data on-the-fly sending the host computers only the correct information, while repairing the faulty data on the drive.

DataDirect Networks has a long history of delivering highly available storage systems with extreme performance and the mid-range S2A6620 is no exception. Redundant, hot swappable components, automated failover features, 12GB of persistent cache, RAID 6 and SATAssure proactive self-healing technology combine to ensure end-to end data protection and availability.

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Innovation

  • Balanced performance for diverse and con-current workloads from consolidation to virtualization
  • SATAssure real-time self-healing error detection and correction
  • Industry leading power, cooling and floor space efficiency
  • Enterprise class features and manageability for a broad range of infrastructures
  • DataDirect Network's extreme storage DNA in a mid-range appliance

Capacity

  • Maximum number of drives supported: 120
  • Maximum capacity with 2TB SATA drives: 120TB in 4U / 240TB in 8U
  • Maximum capacity with 600GB SAS drives: 36TB in 4U / 72TB in 8U
  • Intermix SSD, SAS and SATA Drives
  • 12GB of mirrored cache with battery backup and destage to flash

Performance

  • 335,000 maximum cache IOPS
  • 63,000 maximum SSD IOPS
  • 30,000 maximum SAS IOPS
  • 2GB/sec sustained bandwidth
  • Four next generation 8Gb/s Fibre Channel host/SAN connections

Features

  • Enclosure-based intermixing of high-performance SSD, SAS and high- capacity SATA drives enables efficient tiered storage
  • SATAssure real-time self-healing error detection and correction speeds SATA drive rebuilds
  • Next generation 8Gb Fibre Channel Connectivity
  • 12GB of mirrored cache with battery backup and destage to flash upon power loss
  • RAID-1, RAID-5 and RAID-6 options
  • Powerful, yet easy to use GUI and command line interface for administration
  • Realtime Adaptive Cache Technology (REACT)
  • 60 drive storage appliance in just 4U of rack space scalable to 120 drives in 8U

Benefits

  • Lowers capital and operational expenses with fewer systems to purchase and manage
  • Enterprise-class data protection ensures end-to-end availability and reliability of data while reducing the need to rebuild an entire drive
  • Seamlessly integrates into new or existing infrastructures
  • Extreme cache size speeds application performance while persistent cache backup ensures data is fully protected.
  • No compromise flexibility to deploy the appropriate data protection based on the applications requirements and storage tiers delivers optimized performance and availability
  • Achieve maximum capacity and performance utilization through extensive configuration flexibility and performance tuning options
  • Provides balanced performance for both IOPS and throughput and the ability to excel at diverse and concurrent workloads
  • Reduces floor space requirements and operational costs for capacity-intensive applications

How to Buy

S2A Extreme Storage Systems are available through a variety of channels:

Direct

DDN's Worldwide Presales Team of Account Managers and Systems Engineers will assess your business objectives and technical requirements and prescribe the right size storage to fit your needs and budget.

OEM System Providers

The world's largest technology companies provide S2A Extreme Storage as individual systems or as part of a larger integrated solution.

Resellers and Integrators

Specialized VARs and System Integrators provide S2A Extreme Storage as individual systems or as part of a larger integrated solution.

Contact sales@ddn.com and we will work with you to understand your needs and determine the best source.

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