Chassis Plans SA2U-12EHP Rugged Rackmount RAID System

Chassis Plans, provider of rugged rackmount systems to the military and other challenging markets, introduced the SA2U-12EHP Extreme High IOPS Rackmount RAID Disk Storage System.

The SA2U-12EHP scales to support up to 108 mixed SAS/SATA disk drives, and up to 81 TBs with 750 GB SATA disk drives, yet offers a small 2U high footprint for high installed density. The SA2U-12EHP offers enhanced processing power, providing more than 1.6 GB/second read and 1.3 GB/second write throughput and 150,000 IOPS.  This extreme performance can drive application performance to new heights in a variety of rugged environments.

The SA2U-12EHP features four 4Gb Fibre Channel host ports per controller, with 1GB of mirrored cache per controller; offering up to a total of eight 4Gb Fibre Channel connections per SA2U-12EHP subsystem, and supports SAN, Switchless-SAN or DAS host connect configurations. Additionally, the product supports multiple redundant paths for clustered server environments.

The SA2U-12EHP offers maximum configuration flexibility, enabling customers to freely mix SAS/SATA drives within the same system, and add JBODs to support up to 108 disk drives in a fully configured system. Customers can also choose either single, dual independent or dual fault-tolerant controllers.

Continuing Chassis Plans’ long history of support to the military and other rugged computing sectors, the SA2U-12EHP is ruggedized, and is both NEBS- and MIL-STD-810F-certified, making it ideal for telco and military/government as well as high-performance computing applications in challenging environments.

The SA2U-12EHP is RoHS- and WEEE-compliant. Chassis Plans also offers the option to leverage more energy-efficient DC power supplies for large-system installations.

The SA2U-12EHP features a  battery-free cache memory, which leverages a combination of super capacitors and Flash memory that outlasts traditional batteries nearly fivefold.

The SA2U-12EHP also offers advanced data protection services, including RAID 6 support for protection against double disk failures during longer rebuild times of high capacity disk drives. The SA2U-12EHP also offers Chassis Plans’ volume copy technology enabling the creation of independent data volume copies for additional data protection.

System features include:

• Built-in redundancy
• RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 50
• Redundant, hot swap components
• 3.5" SAS, SATA or SSD drives
• Same sector cache hits of 375,000 IOPS
• 1.6Gb/Sec read / 1.3GB/Sec write
• Optional snapshot capability
• Additional data protection with full volume copies
• Built-in schedule capability
• Dual or single RAID controller or JBOD
• Data rates up to 4Gb/sec. (fibre channel)
• Tested to meet NEBS Level 3
• Tested to meet Mil-Std-810F
• Configured systems available

The SA2U-12EHP is currently shipping in production quantities.