Dot Hill Enhances AssuredSAN Portfolio With 8TB HDDs

Dot Hill Systems Corp. announced availability of three higher capacity HDD devices, including 8TB drives, that allow customers to gain greater storage density in all AssuredSAN hybrid arrays.

Ultra56 AssuredSAN

With 33% more capacity than 6TB drives, new 8TB 7,200 RPM large form factor devices allow Ultra56 AssuredSAN ultra-density RAID arrays to store up to 448TB of data in a single 4U chassis. The company offers two high-capacity small form factor drives, including a 2TB 7,200rpm drive and a 10,000rpm high-performance 1.8TB model. These small form factor drives allow Ultra48 AssuredSAN ultra-density RAID arrays to store up to 96TB of high-performance storage.

According to a recent research report from industry analyst firm ESG, today’s storage IT decision makers want solutions that allow them to manage storage growth, making high capacity a top consideration. Organizations want features that reduce operational costs such as staff, power and cooling requirements and administrators require storage solutions that optimize application performance for key business processes. AssuredSAN hybrid solutions with high-capacity HDD drives and SSDs deliver on all these fronts.

Ultra48 AssuredSAN

“The challenge of managing not only growing volumes of data but also increasingly larger files has made storage capacity and density even more critical in today’s demanding workflows,” said Rob Clark, SVP, product operations, Quantum Corp. “As a provider of Dot Hill disk systems in our tiered storage solutions offerings, we look forward to delivering additional value to customers with the new higher capacity drives.“

In April, Dot Hill and Quantum announced a go-to-market partnership making company’s line of disk storage systems available through Quantum and its worldwide network of resellers.

“These latest high-capacity disk drive options enhance our AssuredSAN solutions for data centers and our vertical markets such as big data analytics, media & entertainment, telecom, and oil & gas,” said Bill Wuertz, SVP, products and solutions, Dot Hill. “Dot Hill’s RealStor storage OS provides the perfect complement to these high capacity solutions by allowing administrators to manage storage with enterprise features such as RealThin thin provisioning. RealThin optimizes capacity management and offers file-system integrated space reclamation which reduces the cost of capacity investments by up to 50%.“