S2A9900

Accelerates Workflows

System writes as fast as it reads, eliminating bottlenecks and accelerating application performance

Industry Leading Density

Reclaim valuable floor space, reduce power and cooling costs 60 Drives/4U enclosure; 1.8PB/Rack

Realtime Quality of Service

Zero performance loss for: data integrity validation, drive rebuilds, enclosure loss and even 100% capacity utilization

D-MAIDTM User Defined Drive Spin-down

Up to 80% power savings and rapid 12 second spin-up time to access archived content

SATAssureTM Real-Time Error Detection & Correction

Increases SATA's data resiliency and reliability with on-the-fly error detection and correction

Real-Time Content Storage

Accelerate workflows, collaborate and run multiple applications and data streams simultaneously. Delivering guaranteed quality of service, enormous bandwidth for throughput-intensive applications and highly efficient capacity management; this is the storage foundation for content creation and digital archives.

Unstructured data is a different animal. Creating, distributing and archiving digital content requires lots of streaming bandwidth performance, uninterrupted service and a simple, cost-effective way to scale and manage capacity.

Proven at scale for over eight generations, the S2A9900 is the gold standard in the world's most content-intensive environments.

The High Density, Integrated Mid-Range Storage Appliance

Proven for over a decade in global deployments, Silicon Storage Architecture (S2A) is a purpose-built storage platform designed to solve the data infrastructure problems that others simply can't. Recipient of multiple awards, including Frost & Sullivan's Digital Media Storage Innovation of the Year and HPC Wire's Best Product and Technology of the Year, the S2A9900 is designed to thrive in throughput-intensive environments, with scalable capacity unrivaled in the industry.

The S2A9900 enables clients to run multiple applications simultaneously in parallel (whereas other systems only can run applications sequentially) saving you more time, money and management personnel. Each system cost-effectively provides the highest levels of performance and capacity, managing 3.6PB in only two floor tiles and delivers sustained, real-time throughput of up to 6GB/s for both writes and reads. Gain the performance and capacity headroom to scale, as bandwidth and files continue to grow, while providing real-time data integrity checking, error correction and intelligent drive failure recovery without degrading performance.

The state machine architecture and advanced software capabilities enable users to be more agile, effectively manage the explosion of unstructured data and deploy a centralized information storage infrastructure.

The High Density, Integrated Mid-Range Storage Appliance

  • Accelerate Applications

    Increase productivity with leading in-class performance that removes storage bottlenecks

  • Flexible and Efficient

    Enables more applications to thrive on a single system with the support of high performance and high capacity drive types

  • Consolidates Inefficient Storage

    Reduce floor space, management, power and cooling by collapsing multiple systems into an ultra-dense, highly efficient platform

  • Industry Leading Density

    Housing 60 drives in just 4U enables your data center to scale growth much more cost and space efficiently than other commercial or white-box solutions

  • Enterprise-class SATA Data Protection

    Makes large SATA pools with high duty-cycles reliable at half the price of SAS or FC drives

  • Simple Integration and Management

    Seamlessly integrates into new or existing infrastructures, powerful Web based GUI, CLI, SNMP and email alert options provide for simple, flexible administration

  • High Performance DirectRAID™ 6

    The only system that provides the benefits of double data protection without compromising performance in any way

  • System Writes as Fast as it Reads

    With no write penalty, only S2A9900 is suited for the rapid ingest of content

  • Real-time Quality of Service

    Zero performance loss for: data integrity validation, drive rebuilds, enclosure loss and even full drive utilization

  • Single System Multi-Tiered Storage

    Intermix SAS, SATA and SSD drives in the same enclosure

  • SATAssure™ Real-Time Error Detection & Correction

    Parity check on every read with zero performance penalty

  • Highly Available N+! Architecture

    With no single point of failure

  • Journaled Drive Rebuilds

    Reduces rebuild times by only requiring new/changed blocks to be written to recoverable drives

  • User Defined Drive Spin-down

    Up to 80% power savings and rapid 12 second spin-up time to access archived content

In just two racks, a single system scales to:

  • • 1,200 Drives
  • • 6GB/s

Aggregate multiple systems and scale beyond:

  • • Dozens of PBs
  • • 240GB/s

Simple to Scale

According to IDC, data is poised to grow 40x over the next 10 years. How will you stay ahead of the demand?

Deploying S2A9900 means the fewest number of systems to buy, support, power and manage as you scale your environment to multiple petabytes.

    • Single System: Scales from 300 to 1,200 drives
    • Multiple Systems: Proven to support dozens of petabytes
    • Media: Intermix SSD, SAS and SATA in the same enclosure
    • Density: 180TB in 4U and 3.6PB in just two racks (SATA)
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    • Single System Bandwidth: UP to 6GB/s Host Throughput (Read and Write)
    • Multiple System Bandwidth: Proven beyond 240GB/s
    • Single System Ports: 8x FC8 Host Ports (Option); 8x infiniband DDR Host Ports (Option)

Real-Time Content Storage

Standard Software Features

  • LUN Mapping and Masking and/or Port Zoning

    PowerLUNs

    Intelligent Stream Detection

  • Real-Time Data Verification Background Data Scrubbing

    Read-Only LUNs DirectAPI

    A/V Slow Drive Avoidance DirectMirror LUN Caching
Optional Software Features

  • System Management Console with SNMP

    Java-Based GUI

    Pager and E-Mail Fault Notification

  • Sleep Mode

    Read-Only LUNS

    Remote Administration Utility
Product Attributes - Active/Active Dual Controllers (Couplet)

  • Sequential Read and Write

    Up to 6GB/s

  • Protection Level

    DirectRAID (Parity), 8+2(RAID6)

  • Max Drives

    1,200

  • Cache

    5GB - RAID protected

  • Host Connectivity

    8x FC8, 8x IB (DDR)

  • Client Support

    Windows, Linux, Solaris, IRIX, AIX, Mac OS
Environmental Attributes - Active/Active Dual Controllers (Couplet)

  • Dimensions

    Height - 7.0" (17.8 cm)
    Width 19" (48.3 cm)
    Depth 31" Including Front Bezel (78.8cm)

  • Average Power

    800W/3.84A

  • Average Cooling

    2730 BTU/hr

  • Voltage Range

    85-264 VAC

  • Weight

    90lbs (41.0 Kg)

  • Certifications

    UL, CE, CUL, C-Tick., FCCS
Environmental Attributes - 4U Enclosure (60 Drives)

  • Drive Types

    SSD, SAS and SATA

  • Dimensions

    Height - 7.0" (17.8 cm)
    Width - 17.56" (44.6 cm)
    Depth - 36.2" (92 cm) without bezel: 40.6" (103 cm)
    w/bezel and cable management arms

  • Average Power

    1750W

  • Voltage Range

    190-264 VAC

  • Operating Environment

    10 Deg C – 35 Deg C

  • Weight

    240 lbs (109 Kg) with drives
    120 lbs (54.5 Kg) without drives

  • Certifications

    UL, CE, CUL, FCC

S2A 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 Storage as individual systems or as part of a larger integrated solution.

  • Resellers and Integrators

    Specialized VARs and System Integrators provide S2A 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.

  • Contact DDN Sales

    Email: sales@ddn.com
    Toll-Free: 1.800.TERABYTE
    Global Sales