Following the very successful Salient (4U, 12 drive) family of storage systems, Xyratex presents its latest product range, the Salient RS family. This equally innovative and cost effective range of high performance, modular, storage systems provides a highly stable and reliable enclosure for sixteen Low Profile (1in) disk drives in only 5.25" of rack space. 16 drives in a 3U rack enclosure represents industry leading capacity in this form factor, with absolutely no compromise in cooling capability up to 40°C ambient conditions. Highly effective cooling ensures your drives will provide the best possible Mean Time Between Failure, maintaining the drive manufacturer’s warranty in full effect.
The standard enclosure is designed for 24x7 operation with fully redundant and hot-swappable data path logic, power supplies, cooling and enclosure management functions. Disk drive carriers are lockable and hot-swappable.
A range of optional modules provides customer flexibility and investment protection. Operating to the latest industry Fibre
Channel standards at 1 or 2Gb/s, enclosures can have a number of JBOD loop architectures or provide high performance RAID where required. By simply swapping IO modules, customers can upgrade from a 1Gb JBOD to a fully featured 2Gb dual RAID system.
Enclosure Features
• High drive packing density (16 drives in 3U/5.25")
• Supports FC-AL 2 at 1Gb or 2Gb/s
• Drive cooling provided by 4 Centrifugal blowers
• FCC class A, UL, cUL, and CE mark
• Dual PSUs with Power Factor Correction & autoranging
• -48VDC PSU option for Telco applications
• No active data path components on the midplane
• Operator panel with Enclosure ID selection, status indicators and configuration switches
• Fault Indicators and audible alarm for power, cooling, system faults, loop speed and hub configuration
• Suitable for standard 19" rack or Telco style center of gravity mounting