JMR BlueStor PeSAN RAID Mac-Compatible

JMR Electronics, Inc. showcased its new line of Mac-compatible 16-bay BlueStor PeSAN RAID and 8-bay BlueStor 888 storage solutions at the 2009 Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco.

The BlueStor PeSAN RAID line was developed to be the ultimate in high-performance Direct Attached Storage or Networked Attached Storage for data intensive IT applications as well as content creation, VOD, video editing and 2K/4K Digital Intermediate (DI) film applications requiring extremely high sustained throughput and reliability. A single 16-bay 3U RAID array with up to 16TB using SATA HDDs (or 4.8TB using SAS HDDs), delivers over 1,400 MB/s – making it ideal for encoding, multi-stream SD/HD real-time editing, and 2K DI applications. For collaborative or multi-stream SD/HD and 2K/4K DI workflows requiring even higher performance and scalable storage, BlueStor PeSAN powered RAIDs can achieve up to 4,000 MB/s and be expanded to over 4,000 TB using the current JMR PeSAN technology.

As with all other BlueStor 3U rackmount products, the system utilizes hot-swappable, lightweight, vibration-dampening resin disk drive canisters with integrated light pipes, latching handles and EMI shields. These are interchangeable amongst all BlueStor 3U rackmounts. The unit also features N+1 hot-swappable cooling elements with centrifugal blowers mounted in noise and vibration-dampening resin modules and N+1 hot-swappable power supplies which are also interchangeable with other BlueStor products for simplified, low-cost spares programs.

At the show, JMR will also debut their new BlueStor 888 desktop storage solution – a compact, light and quiet 8-bay desktop storage solution for the Mac (or PC) that delivers over 500 MB/s, stores up to 8 TB and occupies a mere 7.5" x 11" footprint. The groundbreaking 8-bay SAS/SATA JBOD or RAID desktop solution, with SFF-8088 mini-SAS host connectivity, is ideal for SOHO/SMB data storage expansion, SD or HD content creation and video editing applications requiring the utmost in speed, capacity and reliability on a budget. The BlueStor 888 can be daisy chained to provide additional storage using a 3 Gb/s SAS expander, and will also be available as an 8-bay server or 8-bay NAS appliance next quarter.

Another JMR product debuting will be the EXTN-8, a PCIe Bus Extender with a built-in 16-bay SAS/SATA hot-swap JBOD/RAID housed in a common 3U rackmount chassis. The 5-slot PCIe bus extender’s reliability is backed by nearly two years of compatibility testing with many motherboards, operating systems and peripheral devices. The EXTN-8 is a highly functional, reliable Mac-compatible unit, and includes the added benefit of a JBOD/RAID storage subsystem in the same chassis (capable of up to 16TB SATA storage).